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@stevenstrogatz

Mathematician, writer, Cornell professor. All cards on the table, face up, all the time. For speaking requests, please contact Jodi Solomon Speakers Bureau.

Ithaca, NY
Joined May 2012

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    Click on the screen below to hear a fun little snippet of my conversation with in this week's "The Joy of x" podcast, as he recalls how inhibited he felt (at first) when working with the great mathematician Jean Bourgain.

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    Congratulations to David Hathcock (who started this research as a senior project and is now a physics grad student working with at Cornell) , and to collaborators Riina Tehver and Dave Thirumalai. (2/4)

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    Feb 1

    A lot of tweets about miss that 02 February 2020 is a palindrome in USA, UK and ISO formats; it is a palindrome day of the year (33) and there are a palindrome of days left in the year (333). This will never happen again. More details here:

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  4. Some interesting names on this mathematically minded tweet:

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    Jan 31

    NSF's Division of Mathematical Sciences in collaboration with the Simons Foundation has just announced a new $20M funding opportunity on the Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning. Learn more about it at

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    Lots of emo moments at the past few days, seeing off longtime pal/studio mate . No tribute can capture his impact. But fittingly, we spent our last studio session together laughing our assess off.

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    February during Black History Month is a great time to highlight in your courses the profiles of math scholars at Mathematically Gifted and Black:

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    “The mathematician in me says, no, I don't trust anyone else. … It's that I want to know from basic principles, from myself. That's what proof allows. Mathematical proof is like anti-authority.” Alex Kontorovich and on “The Joy of x."

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    Feb 1

    I thanked my dog in my book acknowledgements too. The conversations were helpful but indeed a bit one sided. Yet he seemed to enjoy them .

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    Feb 1

    Here’s a link to awesome podcast, The Joy of X (same title as my favorite among his books).

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  13. Unraveling the Chemistry of the Tightest Knot Yet . (I just stumbled across this 2017 article in , the nation's oldest college science publication, and I'm impressed by what a great job Zachary Smithline and the other student writers do!)

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    Feb 1

    When you’re admiring a wonderful new book in and bump into its author! Dear Life addresses such an important topic and I can’t wait to read it. (NB strong stripy jumper game)

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    Feb 1

    Thought about Grothendieck vs Bourgain some more; my analogy would be more like: Yes, Grothendieck would put the nut in water, wait a few days, and it would open on its own. Bourgain would observe that your fingers alone need to be 10x as forceful to crack the nut, (cont’d)

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    This has come full circle because 's text "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos" was central to my research for the video.

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    Jan 31
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    *opens drawer* From my notes taken in your Fall 2009 grad course. Definitely a master class in visual reasoning!

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    Jan 31

    seeing curvy triangles everywhere! Thanks for that! 😀

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    Jan 31

    *this* is exactly the reason I prefer teaching with a board (chalk or marker). It forces me to slow down when teaching, and I am convinced that my classes are better for it.

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    It did take time! Probably spent five or 10 minutes drawing and labeling different parts of the diagram, and erasing mistakes, and even with that, you can probably still spot a few errors. I hope the students liked the slow process as much as I did. It was fun but scary

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    Jan 30

    I started listening to the episode of the Knowledge Project with on the morning drive to school. Before getting out of the car my teen requested: “Don’t listen to it any further without me!”

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