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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 30/09/2026

BIG MATH received this very kind pre-publication review in Kirkus: kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... Six weeks till launch! Can't wait -- feeling jumpy...

A very positive review of BIG MATH, a new book by Steven Strogatz and Alex Townsend. The review appears in Kirkus Reviews.

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 30/09/2026

I had the honor of writing about Fields medalist Yu Deng for @TIME Magazine. The tricky part was to try to convey the essence of his brilliant work honestly, yet in terms the public might appreciate. time.com/collection/t...

A photo of Fields medalist Yu Deng, and a brief explanation of how his mathematical work helps bridge the gulf between the micro and the macro descriptions of air and other gases.

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 12/08/2026

Latest crazy story from the frontiers of math and AI -- a neurosurgery resident, with no training in advanced math, uses ChatGPT 5.6 to solve a major open problem in numerical linear algebra. alextownsend.net/essays/SIAMN...

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 23/06/2026

To give you a taste, here are the first three pages (from the page proofs - the book is still in production)

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 23/06/2026

My new book! Written w my pal Alex Townsend, it's about the math behind enormous systems (medical scans, AI, etc.) and what happens when they outgrow our ability to understand them. Pre-order at @barnesandnoble.com for 25% off -> www.barnesandnoble.com/w/big-math-s... @littlebrown.bsky.social

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 12/06/2026

Our beloved dog Murray had a calm and happy ending with us yesterday morning. Eating bacon and hamburger with great pleasure until the anesthesia made him sleepy and he lay his face down and dreamed of chipmunks. We were petting him and telling him what a good boy he is.

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 09/01/2026

I've just started reading this new book by Shekhar Khare, a renowned number theorist at UCLA, and I highly recommend it. It takes the reader on an intellectual adventure, with very illuminating analogies and vivid storytelling. It's a book about some brilliant math, but it also has a great heart.

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 06/01/2026

My applied math colleague Chris Earls is looking to hire a postdoc. The area — interpretability of emergent behaviors exhibited by AI systems — is fascinating and important. Info below:

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 25/12/2025

Preparing for our annual family ritual — a blind taste test. This year's category: hummus!

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 18/12/2025

Reaching the Masses: Six Authors on Public Outreach [about Mathematics] A Zoom conversation with: Keith Devlin Marcus du Sautoy Jordan Ellenberg Sarah Hart John Allen Paulos Steven Strogatz ams.org/journals/not... PDF: ams.org/journals/not...

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 18/09/2025

Here's the table of contents for the issue:

Schematic image of the Earth, and Table of Contents for Quanta Magazine's special issue about climate science

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 18/08/2025

Nonlinearity. In this case, the whole is less than the sum of the parts.

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 16/08/2025

Noah Giansiracusa to Receive 2026 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Communications Award “for his extraordinary contributions to public understanding of the societal impacts of algorithms through his acclaimed books and influential media presence." www.ams.org/news?news_id...

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 09/06/2025

Thanks Cathy! Great to hear from you! Did you see this pic from my recent visit to Brooklyn College? The students in the math club asked me to sign their arms :-)

Prof. Steven Strogatz stands with a group of students from the Brooklyn College Math Club, who proudly show their arms autographed by Prof. Strogatz

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 01/06/2025

As seen in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Peter Carr was a great mathematician with an expertise in finance. I had the honor of being a colleague of his at Cornell before he moved to NYU, where he became a legendary teacher and a professor, much beloved.

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 04/05/2025

After my public lecture at Brooklyn College @brooklyncollege.bsky.social last Thursday, the students in the math club asked me to sign their arms! What a fantastic group of students -- so bright, genuine, and curious -- and so much fun to hang out with!

Prof. Steven Strogatz stands with a group of ten students from the Brooklyn College Math Club, who all smile as they show Strogatz's signature on their forearms.

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 29/04/2025

Why study simple mathematical models? "Because they invite improvement," says #NASmember Steven Strogatz in his #NAS162 Research Briefing, and they may suggest spinoffs in neuroscience, social psychology, machine learning, and more. Watch live: ow.ly/V02g50VImXZ

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 29/03/2025

Another day, another proof of the Riemann hypothesis in my inbox

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 28/02/2025

Submissions are being accepted until March 31 for the awards for excellence in science communication given by @nationalacademies.org in partnership with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social which honor science communicators, journalists, and researchers. Apply now: www.nationalacademies.org/awards/excel...

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 22/02/2025

Black to play (from a blitz game I just finished).

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 13/12/2024

The window shade in my hotel room. I've heard of counting sheep, but this feels a little extreme.

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 10/12/2024

Here's a snapshot from the end of the video above:

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 09/12/2024

In today's lecture in my nonlinear dynamics and chaos course, I tried to give intuition for where chaos comes from. It's caused by repeated stretching and folding of phase space.

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 09/12/2024

Today I learned (ht Viktor Blasjo) how Huygens summed the reciprocals of the triangular numbers. He regrouped the series and showed that it equals the geometric series 1+1/2+1/4+... = 2, like so!

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 24/11/2024

A little puzzle some of you may enjoy

graphs of the curves x^n/n! look evenly spaced.

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 21/11/2024

Topology research at @Cornell is profiled in this new article: as.cornell.edu/news/stretch.... (The person in the image below is the late Bill Thurston, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century.)

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 16/01/2024

The third edition of my textbook, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, was published today. You can preview the first 68 pages on Google Books, or take a look at the preface below to see what's new. The main new thing is a chapter on the Kuramoto model! Hope you enjoy it.

book cover and first page of the preface

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 14/09/2023

In a mathematical biology class I was teaching yesterday, I wanted to remind the students about hemoglobin and myoglobin and why the "cooperativity" of hemoglobin is advantageous. I asked ChatGPT for help, and here's what it came up with. Not bad, right? #science #scicomm #math #mathchat #biology

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