Steven Strogatz

@stevenstrogatz

Mathematician, writer, Cornell professor. NY Times & Radiolab contributor. All cards on the table, face up, all the time.

Ithaca, NY
Joined May 2012

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  1. The prologue and abstract are ..., well, read them for yourselves, everybody.

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    From a math Ph.D. thesis like no other you will ever read

  3. "Dear Sarah" - a soldier's heart-wrenching farewell letter to his wife (from The Civil War, by Ken Burns).

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    David Hand's "The Improbability Principle" is an excellent book on coincidences.

  5. Peter Wiles?? Not Andrew? Bad typo in today's obit for Amir Aczel

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  6. RIP, Amir Aczel, author of many fine popular math books - obit

  7. Are coincidences amazing? Classic paper by Diaconis and Mosteller [PDF] shows how to think about them rationally

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    A parasite called T. cruzi is causing problems in Texas. (No, not that one.)

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    Relativity at a hundred: Stories that show how Albert Einstein rewrote space, time, and science.

  10. Guilty! Me too: cc:

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    Women in physics (NOT)

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    Meet the 10 contestants for the 2016 national Who Wants to Be a Mathematician

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  13. The work of the 2014 Fields medalists, explained (at a relatively high mathematical level)

  14. Get to know Bill Thurston, one of greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. Many charming ideas & stories here:

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    agreed. Bring a superball in to class.

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    I agree. Far more exciting for kids to compute total future value of payments on term life insurance policies. </sarcasm>

  17. I think it's unwise to ask kids to do mortgage calculations on their first exposure to geometric series.

  18. The Mathematicians Who Ended the Kidnapping of an N.Y.U. Computer, via - Stories about Lax & Moser

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    Summary by of critiques of Tononi’s integrated information theory and Φ for consciousness v

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