In his early teens, Stewart stored in notebooks the mathematical conundrums he came across in Scientific American and elsewhere. “I’d collect the columns until piles of them in my bedroom drove my mother mad,” he says.

Fast-forward eight years to 1967 and, as a PhD student, Stewart was co-editing a magazine for maths undergraduates at Warwick. Manifold’s philosophy was: “It’s possible to be serious about maths without being solemn.” Copies went like hot cakes. When the first batch of 200 ran out, another 150 were hastily printed from a duplicator in a university kitchen at 1am. By the age of 37, Stewart was combining lecturing with writing maths comic books.

- The magic numbers, The Guardian, June 9, 2009.

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Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.

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