Ian Stewart (musician) me The Rolling Stones is his band. Without his knowledge and organisation ... we'd be nowhere." On 19 April 2011, pianist Ben Waters released an Ian Stewart tribute album, entitled "Boogie 4 Stu". One of the songs recorded for this album was Bob Dylan's "Watching the River Flow", played by The Rolling Stones featuring Bill Wyman on bass. This was the first time since 1992 that Wyman joined his former band. According to a "Sunday Herald" article in March 2006, Stewart was the basis for a fictional detective: The lyrics to Aidan Moffat & the Best-Of's song "The Sixth Stone"
Ian Stewart (mathematician) on four popular science books based on Pratchett's "Discworld". In 1999 Terry Pratchett made both Jack Cohen and Professor Ian Stewart "Honorary Wizards of the Unseen University" at the same ceremony at which the University of Warwick gave Terry Pratchett an honorary degree. In March 2014 Ian Stewart's iPad app, Incredible Numbers by Professor Ian Stewart, launched in the App Store. The app was produced in partnership with Profile Books and Touch Press. In 1995 Stewart received the Michael Faraday Medal and in 1997 he gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on "The Magical Maze". He was elected as a