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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
— published 2003 — 3 editions |
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The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
— published 2012 — 5 editions |
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Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering
— published 1994 — 5 editions |
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The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life While Corresponding about Math
— published 2009 — 5 editions |
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Chaos
— published 2007 |
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The Mathematical Structure of the Human Sleep-Wake Cycle
— published 1986 — 2 editions |
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Interactive Differential Equations
by Beverly West, Steven H. Strogatz (Goodreads Author), John Cantwell — published 1996 — 7 editions |
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COMMUTING Every decade or so a new approach to teaching math comes along and creates fresh opportunities for parents to feel inadequate. Back in the 1960s, my parents were flabbergasted by their inability to help me with my second-grade homework. T..." Read more of this chapter » |
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Steven Strogatz
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Doing Math in Public
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November 15, 2012 08:00PM
location: Princeton University, A02 McDonnell Hall , Princeton , NJ, The United States description: Evnin Lecture |
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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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― Steven H. Strogatz, The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life While Corresponding about Math
“Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy -- it comes from the Latin word calculus, meaning a pebble used for counting. To enjoy working with numbers you don't have to be Einstein (German for "one stone"), but it might help to have rocks in your head.”
― Steven H. Strogatz, The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
― Steven H. Strogatz, The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
