Steven Strogatz: In and out of love with math | 3b1b podcast #3

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:
https://twitter.com/stevenstrogatz/st...

-- Books by Strogatz which we discussed --
Chaos and Nonlinear dynamics
https://amzn.to/3lFQjrU

Infinite powers
https://amzn.to/3AnvXIg

Unpublished appendix about Newton's letters to Leibniz:
https://static1.squarespace.com/stati...

-- Other things which came up --

Strogatz's senior thesis:
https://static1.squarespace.com/stati...

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 4-dog chase problem and its solution.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...

For a full solution with calculus, see Strogatz's book "The Calculus of Friendship"
https://amzn.to/3CyVe48

Survey for kids on their desired occupation:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...

A radical approach to real analysis
https://amzn.to/2VwtgF3

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 pre-med
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 under-motivated culture
1:51:48 - What's next?