Steven Strogatz
@stevenstrogatz
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Mathematician, writer, Cornell professor. All cards on the table, face up, all the time.
Ithaca, NY
Joined May 2012
Congratulations to all the tremendous science communicators being honored this year!
Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications given by @theNASEM in partnership with @schmidtsciences! Learn more about the winners: https://t.co/rYTjgSsWYB
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Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications given by @theNASEM in partnership with @schmidtsciences! Learn more about the winners: https://t.co/rYTjgSsWYB
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Aside from Yang-Mills theory and parity nonconservation, Yang made so many profound contributions to physics! One that deeply impressed me as I was starting grad school: a 1975 paper with T. T. Wu highlighting the role of fiber bundles in gauge theory. https://t.co/kKP738L2sy
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He and a colleague created a sensation in 1956 by proposing that one of the four forces of nature might violate a law of physics.
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I just finished one of the most important projects of my life: https://t.co/UxzqqBY6eI with thanks to @stevenstrogatz @LisaSu @eric_lander @MathforLove @lirarandall @mathbabedotorg @HCSSiM and many others!
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Ever since I made a video about Fourier Transforms, one of the most requested topics on the channel has been its close cousin, the Laplace Transform. I've been having a lot of fun animating a mini-series about this topic, and the main part is now out. https://t.co/oKawJAGyx1
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In this SFI Seminar, Scott Aaronson (University of Texas at Austin) explores the limits of mathematical knowability — from Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem and Turing’s uncomputability to the astonishing growth of the Busy Beaver function and the future possibilities of quantum
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@stevenstrogatz @Dr_CMingarelli @NobelPrize You can access and search the nomination archive here: https://t.co/nSyb1esuhY Also worth reading the manual
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LLMs are becoming creative partners in scientific discovery. We've seen Scott Aaronson, @terrence_tao , and many more using them to unlock pathways to proofs : not just for IMO-style competition problems, but for actual research questions ! While LLMs can't yet solve
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I'm really excited about this upcoming event! There's lots of opportunities to hear authors talk about their work, but here we also go the behind-the-scenes: how to become a pop math/science author, what works, what doesn't---lots of tips and stories on becoming a writer!
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This sort of thing is interesting and nice, but calling it “new theorems” is slightly misleading when we’re talking about improved bounds discovered through a big search.
AlphaEvolve Just Helped Prove New Theorems in Complexity Theory Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve just made real breakthroughs in theoretical computer science. Instead of generating full proofs, it discovered new combinatorial structures that plug into existing proof frameworks,
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Mathematician Chad Topaz's new book looks at America's criminal legal system through the lens of data science. Pre-order at
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Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change
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To disprove a conjecture about knots, the mathematician Susan Hermiller and her longtime collaborator Mark Brittenham bought laptops at an auction and ran geometric analyses on them for over a decade. At one point, a machine “actually sent out sparks.” https://t.co/ssWmC4GOgV
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Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are Special thanks to @stevenstrogatz and @barabasi for all their help on this video.
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Network Science, and three of its avengers, featured in the latest @veritasium video (one of the largest youtube channels for Science education)!! https://t.co/mG9DPUx1bX
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