Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett is an English author best known for his comical fantasy series set on the Discworld. He was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s and has been knighted for services to literature. As an amateur astronomer and natural history enthusiast, Pratchett often includes science jokes in his books and has written four popular science books with mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen.

Erdős 4

• Terry Pratchett

  The Science of Discworld ¹

• Ian Stewart

  Hopf bifurcation in the presence of symmetry

• Martin A. Golubitsky

  Primitive subalgebras of exceptional Lie algebras

• Bruce L. Rothschild

  Euclidean Ramsey theorems

• Paul Erdős

Bacon 2

• Terry Pratchett

  The Colour of Magic ²

• Sean Astin

  White Water Summer

• Kevin Bacon

Sabbath 3

• Terry Pratchett

  Wintersmith — Steeleye Span

• Maddy Prior

  "Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die" — Jethro Tull

• Ian Anderson

  Jethro Tull (1968)

• Tony Iommi

Credits

Discovery: Daibhid C

Improvements: Phil Ashby

Footnotes

1. The Science of Discworld is a pop science book cowritten with Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart. ↩

2. Pratchett has a cameo appearance in TV movie The Colour of Magic based on his novel of the same name. He is also credited with "Mucking about" with the movie. ↩