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How a Mathematician Spends His Sundays

1/28/2022 by : Tammy La Gorce , New York Times

Steven Strogatz, professor of mathematics, has temporarily moved to New York City to serve as a math ambassador, of sorts, at the National Museum of Mathematics, known as MoMath, as featured in a New York Times “Sunday Routine” column. As a mathematician, he looks at the city in his own way, seeing, for example, the geometry of the buildings. “The city is a wonderment to me, the way the…