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Steven H. Strogatz

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August 13, 1959

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Steven H. Strogatz is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He is known for his contributions to the study of synchronization in dynamical systems, and for his work in a variety of areas of applied mathematics, including mathematical biology and complex network theory.

In particular, his 1998 Nature paper with Duncan Watts, entitled "Collective dynamics of small-world networks", is widely regarded as a seminal contribution to the new interdisciplinary field of "complex networks," whose applications reach from graph theory and statistical physics to sociology, business, epidemiology, and neuroscience. As one measure of this paper's impact, it is the most highly cited art...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 484 ratings · 63 reviews · 7 distinct works

	SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order 3.84 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: With Applications To Physics, Biology, Chemistry, And Engineering 4.37 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life While Corresponding about Math 3.64 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Chaos 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Mathematical Structure of the Human Sleep-Wake Cycle 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Synchron: Vom Rätselhaften Rhythmus Der Natur 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	My rating:
	Interactive Differential Equations by Beverly West, Steven H. Strogatz, John Cantwell 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions	My rating:

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“Yet in another way, calculus is fundamentally naive, almost childish in its optimism. Experience teaches us that change can be sudden, discontinuous, and wrenching. Calculus draws its power by refusing to see that. It insists on a world without accidents, where one thing leads logically to another. Give me the initial conditions and the law of motion, and with calculus I can predict the future -- or better yet, reconstruct the past. I wish I could do that now.
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― Steven H. Strogatz, The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life While Corresponding about Math

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