Mathematics and Society w/ Steven Strogatz

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Cara chats with Dr. Steven Strogatz ("The Joy of X") about his work as an applied mathematician at Cornell University. They talk about nonlinear dynamics and complex systems, mathematics in popular media, and just how important math is to a functional society.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. It's Monday April 24th and I'm your host
0:14.6	Kara Santa Maria. This week I sit down with Dr Stephen Strogats, professor of
0:20.5	applied mathematics at Cornell University,
0:23.1	and author of several popular books about math.
0:26.3	But before we dive into that, I want to thank those of you
0:28.8	who made Talk Nurdy possible this week.
0:31.0	And of course, I'm going to start with those of you who have visited
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1:00.0	many, many more of you if you want to support the show that is one way to do it you can
1:03.9	also visit my website at carrissant and Maria dot com and look at all the other ways to do
1:08.1	it guys this weekend was so cool how many of you went out for the March for Science? I got to
1:15.0	co-host in DC the rally right before the March and it was so much fun. I was up
1:19.6	there with my friends Derek Mueller, who is also known as Veratasium on YouTube and Quest Love Gomez
1:26.0	from the Roots and there were so many great guests including the one and
1:31.2	only Bill 9 the science guy.
1:32.9	And it was such an incredible event.
1:35.2	It was pouring down rain and people still came out
1:37.6	by the tens of thousands and supported this incredible cause.
1:41.0	And then we all got to march together. I really hope that you
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