Steven Strogatz
@stevenstrogatz.com
Mathematician, writer, Cornell professor. All cards on the table, face up, all the time. www.stevenstrogatz.com
I haven't been very active here for several months, because I've been working on a new book. Soon I will be able to tell you about it. Is anyone out there interested?
November 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I haven't been very active here for several months, because I've been working on a new book. Soon I will be able to tell you about it. Is anyone out there interested?
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Portrait of mathematician Steven Strogatz at Cornell. Strogatz studies the mathematics of connection, from the rhythm of fireflies to the beating of the heart. @stevenstrogatz.com
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November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Portrait of mathematician Steven Strogatz at Cornell. Strogatz studies the mathematics of connection, from the rhythm of fireflies to the beating of the heart. @stevenstrogatz.com
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Congratulations to all the tremendous science communicators honored this year!
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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 @nationalacademies.org in partnership with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social !
Learn more about the winners: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/10... #scicomm
Learn more about the winners: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/10... #scicomm
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Congratulations to all the tremendous science communicators honored this year!
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Teach Triangular Numbers With Steven Strogatz and The New York Times
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October 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Fourth lesson: triangular numbers, telescoping series, calculus, and MRI scans
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Teach Triangular Numbers With Steven Strogatz and The New York Times
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October 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Fourth lesson: triangular numbers, telescoping series, calculus, and MRI scans
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🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
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We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The social, decoupled self: interpersonal synchronization of breathing alters intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling
People synchronize their periodic behavioural and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While this interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive ef...
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October 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thanks. Good point.
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October 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Thanks. Good point.
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Thanks. Good point.
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October 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Thanks. Good point.
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good point, thanks.
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October 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
good point, thanks.
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Network Science, and three of its avengers, featured in the latest @veritasium.bsky.social video (one of the largest youtube channels for Science education)!! youtu.be/CYlon2tvywA?... @stevenstrogatz.com Duncan Watts @barabasi.bsky.social
Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are
YouTube video by Veritasium
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October 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Network Science, and three of its avengers, featured in the latest @veritasium.bsky.social video (one of the largest youtube channels for Science education)!! youtu.be/CYlon2tvywA?... @stevenstrogatz.com Duncan Watts @barabasi.bsky.social
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This is a really good video that I enjoyed a lot
By @veritasium.bsky.social ft. @stevenstrogatz.com
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By @veritasium.bsky.social ft. @stevenstrogatz.com
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Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are
YouTube video by Veritasium
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October 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
This is a really good video that I enjoyed a lot
By @veritasium.bsky.social ft. @stevenstrogatz.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYlo...
By @veritasium.bsky.social ft. @stevenstrogatz.com
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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 www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Ju...
Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change
Amazon.com: Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change: 9780691276151: Topaz, Chad M.: Books
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October 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Mathematician Chad Topaz's new book looks at America's criminal legal system through the lens of data science. Pre-order at www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Ju...
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The New York Times Learning Network is going to be publishing four lessons over the next four weeks on Tuesdays, based on my Math, Revealed series from a few months ago. Here's the first installment: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/l...
Teach Taxicab Geometry With Steven Strogatz and The New York Times
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September 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The New York Times Learning Network is going to be publishing four lessons over the next four weeks on Tuesdays, based on my Math, Revealed series from a few months ago. Here's the first installment: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/l...
Unpack the Math of Packing With Steven Strogatz and The New York Times
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September 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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The New York Times Learning Network is going to be publishing four lessons over the next four weeks on Tuesdays, based on my Math, Revealed series from a few months ago. Here's the first installment: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/l...
Teach Taxicab Geometry With Steven Strogatz and The New York Times
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September 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Here is a @desmos.com activity about the symmetry-preserving transformations of a square, inspired by my colleague Tom Jameson.
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For a really great intro to how this relates to group theory, see this by @stevenstrogatz.com archive.nytimes.com/opinionator....
classroom.amplify.com/activity/68c...
For a really great intro to how this relates to group theory, see this by @stevenstrogatz.com archive.nytimes.com/opinionator....
September 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Here is a @desmos.com activity about the symmetry-preserving transformations of a square, inspired by my colleague Tom Jameson.
classroom.amplify.com/activity/68c...
For a really great intro to how this relates to group theory, see this by @stevenstrogatz.com archive.nytimes.com/opinionator....
classroom.amplify.com/activity/68c...
For a really great intro to how this relates to group theory, see this by @stevenstrogatz.com archive.nytimes.com/opinionator....
Here is the second lesson. This one is about the golden ratio. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/l...
Explore the Math Behind the Golden Ratio With Steven Strogatz and The New York Times
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September 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Here is the second lesson. This one is about the golden ratio. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/l...
Here's the table of contents for the issue:
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Here's the table of contents for the issue:
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As a researcher, @stevenstrogatz.com sees #math everywhere — around us and inside us. 👀 ♾️
Read about his love of #mathematics, where it shows up in his everyday life, and what sparked his efforts to communicate about it: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/08... #scicomm
Read about his love of #mathematics, where it shows up in his everyday life, and what sparked his efforts to communicate about it: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/08... #scicomm
September 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
As a researcher, @stevenstrogatz.com sees #math everywhere — around us and inside us. 👀 ♾️
Read about his love of #mathematics, where it shows up in his everyday life, and what sparked his efforts to communicate about it: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/08... #scicomm
Read about his love of #mathematics, where it shows up in his everyday life, and what sparked his efforts to communicate about it: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/08... #scicomm
[email protected] has devoted a whole issue to the fundamental science of climate. Can't wait to read this – we hear so much about climate change, but so little about the basic science.
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Issue: www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...
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Quanta Series Marvels at 'The Achievement of Climate Science'
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September 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
[email protected] has devoted a whole issue to the fundamental science of climate. Can't wait to read this – we hear so much about climate change, but so little about the basic science.
Press: www.newswire.com/news/quanta-...
Issue: www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...
Press: www.newswire.com/news/quanta-...
Issue: www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...
Math teachers: please help spread the word. These lessons are aimed at K-12 (especially middle and high school). #MathEd #ITeachMath #MathSky
September 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Math teachers: please help spread the word. These lessons are aimed at K-12 (especially middle and high school). #MathEd #ITeachMath #MathSky
The lessons, written by award-winning teacher
@mrhonner.com.web.brid.gy, are all free.
So are the links to my earlier series. You don't need to have a @nytimes.com subscription to read them.
@mrhonner.com.web.brid.gy, are all free.
So are the links to my earlier series. You don't need to have a @nytimes.com subscription to read them.
September 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The lessons, written by award-winning teacher
@mrhonner.com.web.brid.gy, are all free.
So are the links to my earlier series. You don't need to have a @nytimes.com subscription to read them.
@mrhonner.com.web.brid.gy, are all free.
So are the links to my earlier series. You don't need to have a @nytimes.com subscription to read them.
The New York Times Learning Network is going to be publishing four lessons over the next four weeks on Tuesdays, based on my Math, Revealed series from a few months ago. Here's the first installment: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/l...
Teach Taxicab Geometry With Steven Strogatz and The New York Times
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The New York Times Learning Network is going to be publishing four lessons over the next four weeks on Tuesdays, based on my Math, Revealed series from a few months ago. Here's the first installment: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/l...
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Happy 4^ / 3^2 / 5^2 day!!! (3^2/ 4^2 / 5^2 for us weird Americans) Not too many days satisfy the Pythagorean thm. @amermathsoc.bsky.social @austms.bsky.social @stevenstrogatz.com @monsoon0.bsky.social ht Peter Baxter for noticing. Looking forward to coming back to the US for joint maths in Jan.
September 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Happy 4^ / 3^2 / 5^2 day!!! (3^2/ 4^2 / 5^2 for us weird Americans) Not too many days satisfy the Pythagorean thm. @amermathsoc.bsky.social @austms.bsky.social @stevenstrogatz.com @monsoon0.bsky.social ht Peter Baxter for noticing. Looking forward to coming back to the US for joint maths in Jan.
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Tonight, @momath.bsky.social and @stevenstrogatz.com celebrated the winners of the math communication prize that bears Steve's name. Want to be inspired by creativity of high schoolers? See the prize winners work at: momath.org/strogatzpriz...
Strogatz Prize 2025 Winners – National Museum of Mathematics
National Museum of Mathematics: Inspiring math exploration and discovery
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September 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Tonight, @momath.bsky.social and @stevenstrogatz.com celebrated the winners of the math communication prize that bears Steve's name. Want to be inspired by creativity of high schoolers? See the prize winners work at: momath.org/strogatzpriz...