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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Note from Strogatz's high school geometry:
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-- Books by Strogatz which we discussed --
Chaos and Nonlinear dynamics
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Infinite powers
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Unpublished appendix about Newton's letters to Leibniz: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:
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Crick’s paper about linking numbers and nucleosomes with the memorable comment that inspired his experiment with the ribbon:
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The 4-dog chase problem and its solution.
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For a full solution with calculus, see Strogatz's book "The Calculus of Friendship"
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Survey for kids on their desired occupation:
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A radical approach to real analysis
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Twitter thread on what, morally, a normal subgroup is.
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Leibniz formula via patterns from primes
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-- Table of contents --
0:00 - Intro
1:15 - Ad
1:59 - The perfect problem for a high school student
12:43 - Starting the Princeton undergrad
22:52 - The most beautiful proof
26:58 - What makes someone love a problem?
36:05 - Putting lessons online
41:57 - In and out of pre-med
47:05 - The geometry of DNA
58:53 - Using teaching as a means to learn
1:09:47 - Do students like history?
1:18:39 - The truth of Newton and Leibniz
1:23:29 - Archimedes, a true great
1:28:32 - Pitfalls of pure math exposition
1:39:03 - "Morality" in math
1:43:20 - An under-motivated culture
1:51:48 - What's next?
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