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The Science of Discworld

The Science of Discworld
The Science of Discworld
What Happens if You Team Up The UK's Best Selling Comedy Fantasy Writer, a Chaos Mathematician & a Reproductive Biologist Who Designs Aliens?

What happens is a unique partnership that introduces the huge audience of Terry Pratchett's Discworld fans to leading edge science research development of the human mind. This month two University of Warwick scientists, Professor Ian Stewart and Dr Jack Cohen have partnered with best selling author Terry Pratchett to publish two best selling books the paperback "The Science of Discworld" and the new hardback "Science of Discworld 2" the books use the comedy fantasy setting of Pratchett's Discworld to explain the real science of our universe.

Science of Discworld 2 weaves together a Discworld story by Terry Pratchett which examines what happens when wizards meddle with history in a battle against the elves for the future of humanity, with scientific commentary by two University of Warwick researchers (mathematician and chaos theory
expert Professor Ian Stewart and reproductive Biologist Dr Jack Cohen) on the evolution and  evelopment of the human mind, culture, language, art, and science.

The three authors delivered a free public lecture on the content of the two books in the University of Warwick's Arts Centre Conference room on Thursday 30th May 2003 followed by book
signing. When Terry Pratchett visited the University of Warwick, to receive an honorary degree from the University he reciprocated by performing a short ceremony to make Professor Ian Stewart and Dr Jack Cohen "Honorary Wizards of the Unseen University" - the Discworld's own University.

More details at
http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/minisites/globe/

Author: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
Publisher: Ebury Press
ISBN: 0091882737