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December 08, 2014

The 3 Most Confusing Things Your Math Teacher Ever Told You→

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The 3 Most Confusing Things Your Math Teacher Ever Told You

Help for those still befuddled by things that came up in math class
- The Huffington Post, December 13, 2012

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October 23, 2014

Visualizing Vastness→

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Visualizing Vastness

Shrinking the solar system down to size
- The New York Times, October 15, 2012

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Me Myself and Math, NYT
October 23, 2014

Dangerous Intersection→

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Dangerous Intersection

Catastrophe theory, sleep, and the economy
- The New York Times, October 8, 2012

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Me Myself and Math, NYT
October 23, 2014

It’s My Birthday Too, Yeah→

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It’s My Birthday Too, Yeah

The day Johnny Carson met the birthday problem
- The New York Times, October 1, 2012

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Me Myself and Math, NYT
October 23, 2014

Proportion Control→

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Proportion Control

The myth and math of the golden ratio
- The New York Times, September 24, 2012

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October 23, 2014

Friends You Can Count On→

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Friends You Can Count On

Why your friends have more friends than you do
- The New York Times, September 17, 2012

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Me Myself and Math, NYT
October 23, 2014

Singular Sensations→

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Singular Sensations

Cowlicks, fingerprints, and index theory
- The New York Times, September 10, 2012

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Me Myself and Math, NYT
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Four Cornell Professors Elected to National Academy of Sciences

- Cornell Chronicle
May 1, 2024

Mathematician Steven Strogatz Receives National Award for Science Communication

- Cornell Chronicle
November 21, 2023

National Academies Announce 2023 Recipients of Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications

- National Academies
November 2, 2023

New Proof Shows That ‘Expander’ Graphs Synchronize

- Quanta Magazine
July 24, 2023

The Beautiful Cover of the Japanese edition of The Calculus of Friendship

- Abakcus
June 14, 2023

$5M Gift Establishes A&S Outreach Professorship

- Cornell Chronicle
May 31, 2023

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘A Trip to Infinity’ on Netflix, a Mind-Boggling Documentary About Everything We Don’t Know About Everything

- Decider.com
September 26, 2022

How a Mathematician Spends His Sundays

- New York Times
January 28, 2022

The Secret of Synchronization

- Veritasium
March 31, 2021

Why I’m Hosting "The Joy of x" Podcast

- Quanta
January 15, 2020

TED Talk

The Science of Sync
How things in nature tend to sync up

Recent Activities

Recent Activities
Zero to Infinity
Zero to Infinity

Discover how the concepts of zero and infinity revolutionized mathematics.

— NOVA, PBS
November 16, 2022

A Trip to Infinity
A Trip to Infinity

Eminent mathematicians, particle physicists and cosmologists dive into infinity and its mind-bending implications for the universe.

— Netflix
September 26, 2022

Who's Afraid of Big Numbers?
Who's Afraid of Big Numbers?

Pretty much everyone. But it doesn’t have to be that way, two mathematicians contend.

— New York Times
June 17, 2021

The Surprising Secret of Synchronization
The Surprising Secret of Synchronization

How does order spontaneously arise out of chaos?

— Veritasium
March 31, 2021

The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet
The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet

Sometimes BODMAS is just PEMDAS by another name. And no, the answer is not 100.

- The New York Times
August 2, 2019

Pi Day: How One Irrational Number Made Us Modern
Pi Day: How One Irrational Number Made Us Modern

The famous mathematical ratio, estimated to more than 22 trillion digits (and counting), is the perfect symbol for our species’ long effort to tame infinity.

- The New York Times
March 14, 2019

One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine
One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine

The stunning success of AlphaZero, a deep-learning algorithm, heralds a new age of insight—one that, for humans, may not last long.

- The New York Times
December 26, 2018

Exploring Mathematical Genius
Exploring Mathematical Genius

A panel discussion about Srinivasa Ramanujan, the nature of mathematical genius, and the film "The Man Who Knew Infinity."    

- World Science Festival
March 11, 2016

Einstein's First Proof
Einstein's First Proof

Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theorem foreshadows the scientist he later became.

- The New Yorker
November 19, 2015

Aspen Ideas Festival
Aspen Ideas Festival

On Science Friday at the 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival, Jordan Ellenberg, Jo Boaler and Steven Strogatz fielded questions from host Ira Flatow and posed brainteasers to the live audience. (Photo Credit: Olivier Douliery)

- Aspen Institute
July 3, 2015

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