3 - Steven Strogatz: In and out of love with math

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. Episode sponsor: Brilliant is a great site/app for being more active in learning math. --- Books by Strogatz which we discussed --- Chaos and Nonlinear dynamics Infinite powers Unpublished appendix about Newton's letters to Leibniz: --- Other things which came up --- Strogatz's senior thesis: His first published paper: Crick’s paper about linking numbers and nucleosomes with the memorable comment that inspired his experiment with the ribbon: The 4-dog chase problem and its solution. For a full solution with calculus, see Strogatz's book "The Calculus of Friendship" Survey for kids on their desired occupation: A radical approach to real analysis Twitter thread on what, morally, a normal subgroup is. Leibniz formula via patterns from primes --- 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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3 - Steven Strogatz: In and out of love with math is an episode from The 3b1b podcast by Grant Sanderson.

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This episode was published on Aug 7, 2021.

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