Steven Strogatz
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Mathematician, writer, Cornell professor. NY Times & Radiolab contributor. All cards on the table, face up, all the time.
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Steven Strogatz Retweeted Keith Devlin
The prologue and abstract are ..., well, read them for yourselves, everybody. https://twitter.com/profkeithdevlin/status/674250751837904896 …
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Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlinLove this! Jordan is right. Worth a look, mathy folks. https://twitter.com/JSEllenberg/status/674245895580426241 …2 retweets 8 likes -
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From a math Ph.D. thesis like no other you will ever read http://www.theliberatedmathematician.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/PiperThesisPostPrint.pdf …
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"Dear Sarah" - a soldier's heart-wrenching farewell letter to his wife (from The Civil War, by Ken Burns). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh_NvtXebmc …
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@stevenstrogatz@mjmauboussin David Hand's "The Improbability Principle" is an excellent book on coincidences. -
Peter Wiles?? Not Andrew? Bad typo in today's
@nytimes obit for Amir Aczel pic.twitter.com/dhIPVmh7yl
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RIP, Amir Aczel, author of many fine popular math books -
@nytimes obit http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/us/amir-aczel-author-of-scientific-cliffhanger-dies-at-65.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share … -
Are coincidences amazing? Classic paper by Diaconis and Mosteller [PDF] shows how to think about them rationally https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/diaconis_mosteller.pdf …
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A parasite called T. cruzi is causing problems in Texas. (No, not that one.) http://bit.ly/1PElXAr
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Relativity at a hundred: Stories that show how Albert Einstein rewrote space, time, and science. http://nyer.cm/jiGP1fD
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Steven Strogatz Retweeted Justin Lahart
Guilty! Me too: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/einsteins-first-proof-pythagorean-theorem … cc:
@anthonylydgate@alanburdick https://twitter.com/jdlahart/status/673928258228883456 …Steven Strogatz added,
Justin Lahart @jdlahartThis week in@NewYorker ledes pic.twitter.com/hlw7llmzRu -
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Women in physics (NOT) pic.twitter.com/lc1dXx3g3V
11:13 AM - 7 Dec 2015 · Details11 retweets 6 likes -
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Meet the 10 contestants for the 2016 national Who Wants to Be a Mathematician http://bit.ly/1PQ8wh6 pic.twitter.com/edtp6LfTru
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The work of the 2014 Fields medalists, explained (at a relatively high mathematical level) http://www.ams.org/notices/201511/rnoti-p1334.pdf …
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Get to know Bill Thurston, one of greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. Many charming ideas & stories here: http://www.ams.org/notices/201511/rnoti-p1318.pdf …
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@stevenstrogatz agreed. Bring a superball in to class. http://photo180.recursiveprocess.com/?p=2388 -
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@stevenstrogatz I agree. Far more exciting for kids to compute total future value of payments on term life insurance policies. </sarcasm> -
I think it's unwise to ask kids to do mortgage calculations on their first exposure to geometric series.
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The Mathematicians Who Ended the Kidnapping of an N.Y.U. Computer, via
@nytimes - Stories about Lax & Moser http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/07/nyregion/the-mathematicians-who-ended-the-kidnapping-of-an-nyu-computer.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share … -
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@Horganism of critiques of Tononi’s integrated information theory and Φ for consciousness http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/can-integrated-information-theory-explain-consciousness/ … v@GreggDCaruso
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