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Unpublished appendix about Newton's letters to Leibniz: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:
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/78/...

Crick’s paper about linking numbers and nucleosomes with the memorable comment that inspired his experiment with the ribbon:
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/73/...

The 4dog 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
   • Pi hiding in prime regularities  

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 premed
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 undermotivated culture
1:51:48 What's next?