# Steven Strogatz
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Steven Henry Strogatz (; born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University.
He is known for his work on nonlinear systems, including contributions to the study of synchronization in dynamical systems, for his research in a variety of areas of applied mathematics, including mathematical biology and complex network theory,
and for his outreach work in the public communication of mathematics.
== Education ==
Strogatz attended high school at Loomis Chaffee from 1972–1976.
What Is the Positive Grassmannian and Why Does It Show Up Everywhere?
What links certain mathematical models of traffic flow, shallow-water waves, and quantum particle scattering? The surprising answer lies in a corner of the algebraic combinatorics world that goes by the name of positive Grassmannian. In simple terms, the positive Grassmannian is a shape that classi…
How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding?
One of the biggest mysteries in cosmology seems to keep getting bigger. Astronomers have known since the 1930s that the universe is expanding, but in the 1990s, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating rather than slowing down came as a huge shock to the field. Something had to be driving …
#73 Steven Strogatz: Exploring Curiosities
Mathematician Steven Strogatz reveals how math is the key to exploring and understanding the beauty of our world. Go Premium: Members get early access, ad-free episodes, hand-edited transcripts, searchable transcripts, member-only episodes, and more. Sign up at: https://fs.blog/membership/ …
Prediction Markets & The "Big Score" Economy
In this episode, Dick and Paul dig into why "lottery-style" speculation is exploding — from South Korea's illegal 3x leveraged semiconductor ETF mania (where a huge share of active young traders are piling in despite a government ban) to the boom in prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, wh…
Are We Thinking Correctly about AI Intelligence?
When an LLM answers a question, is it reasoning like humans, or just producing text that looks like reasoning? The distinction isn’t just philosophical, this determines what we can trust AI to do, how closely we need to supervise it, and ultimately what its real-world impact will turn out to be.
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Conversation #1 with Steven Strogatz
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CHAPTERS:
(00:00) Mathematical explanation and AI
(07:28) Reductionism across scientific fields
(11:04) Intuition and mathematical deduction
(18:31) Geometry versus algebraic thinking
(24:32) Euler and negative logarith…
Live from ICM 2026: What Is Math For in the Age of AI?
Mathematicians are witnessing a profound shift in their field. AI systems are now producing proofs, spotting connections between distant fields, and, in a few cases, solving problems that had stumped mathematicians for decades. The pace of progress over the past several months has raised challengin…
Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin?
Quantum mechanics may be one of the most precisely tested paradigms in science, but there’s still no universally accepted interpretation of what it tells us about reality. How do we get from the wave-like behavior of quantum systems to the solid, macroscopic world of objects and the universe at lar…
347: Steven Strogatz - How Calculus Reveals The Secrets Of The Universe
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk Text LEARNERS to 44222 Full show notes can be found at www.LearningLeader.com Episode #347: Steven Strogatz - How Calculus Reveals The Secrets Of The Universe
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AI Can Solve Math. But Can It Ask a Good Question? | Steven Strogatz
Can AI solve mathematics without understanding it? And if machines become better than humans at finding answers, who will come up with the questions?I traveled to Cornell University to sit down with mathematician and bestselling author Steven Strogatz to explore what AI's remarkable advances mean f…
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