3 - Steven Strogatz: In and out of love with math
Sonntag, 8. August 2021 · 1 h 54
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Shownotes
Steven Strogatz, an applied mathematician at Cornell, is a prominent figure in the field of nonlinear dynamics and chaos, and a widely beloved popularizer of math.
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--- Books by Strogatz which we discussed ---
Chaos and Nonlinear dynamics
Infinite powers
Unpublished appendix about Newton's letters to Leibniz:
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--- Other things which came up ---
Strogatz's senior thesis:
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His first published paper:
pnas.org/content/pnas/78/3/1461.full.pdf
Crick’s paper about linking numbers and nucleosomes with the memorable comment that inspired his experiment with the ribbon:
pnas.org/content/pnas/73/8/2639.full.pdf
The 4-dog chase problem and its solution.
theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/03/can-you-so…
theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/03/did-you-so…
For a full solution with calculus, see Strogatz's book "The Calculus of Friendship"
Survey for kids on their desired occupation:
prnewswire.com/news-releases/lego-group-kicks-…
A radical approach to real analysis
Twitter thread on what, morally, a normal subgroup is.
mobile.twitter.com/sbagley/status/129621102453…
Leibniz formula via patterns from primes
--- Table of contents ---
- Intro
- Ad
- The perfect problem for a high school student
- Starting the Princeton undergrad
- The most beautiful proof
- What makes someone love a problem?
- Putting lessons online
- In and out of pre-med
- The geometry of DNA
- Using teaching as a means to learn
- Do students like history?
- The truth of Newton and Leibniz
- Archimedes, a true great
- Pitfalls of pure math exposition
- "Morality" in math
- An under-motivated culture
- What's next?
