Steven Strogatz

@stevenstrogatz

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

Ithaca, NY
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  1. 9 hours ago

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

    Love this! Jordan is right. Worth a look, mathy folks.
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    From a math Ph.D. thesis like no other you will ever read

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  3. 9 hours ago

    "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.

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  5. 13 hours ago

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

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  6. 14 hours ago

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

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  7. 24 hours ago

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

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    Nov 20

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

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    Nov 25

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

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  10. Dec 7

    Guilty! Me too: cc:

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    This week in ledes
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    Dec 7

    Women in physics (NOT)

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    Dec 7

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

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    6:57 AM - 7 Dec 2015 · Details
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  13. Dec 7

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

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  14. Dec 7

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

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    Dec 6

    agreed. Bring a superball in to class.

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    Dec 6

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

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  17. Dec 6

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

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  18. Dec 6

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

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    Dec 1

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

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