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Byline: Steven Strogatz

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Who's afraid of big numbers?

New York Times

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Mathematics

The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet

The New York Times

Cornell mathematician Steven Strogatz, author most recently of "Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe," explains the latest mathematical Twitter upset in a New York Times op-ed.

Mathematics

How Pi Made Us Modern

New York Times

Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics in the College of Arts & Sciences and author of "The Joy of X," explains the origin and meaning of pi in a New York Times op-ed. 

Transformative Humanities

Strogatz on Camus and Sartre

… suggestion I chose French. Much of that year was spent learning grammar and vocabulary. But over the next three … are – Sartre wrote that we are what we do (“nous sommes ce que nous faisons”). We each have the freedom to create … which Sartre called the look of the other, “le regard des autres.” Other people look at you, know you, have …