Steven Strogatz

I was interviewed by the NPR show On Point, with things I said dropped in a couple of places into an illuminating conversation between Steven Strogatz and Meghna Chakrabarti about AI and math: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

I spoke with The Daily about what’s happening to mathematics in the age of AI—and what it feels like to be a mathematician right now. The conversation went places I hadn’t expected. Thank you to Rachel Abrams, Annie Minoff, and their team. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/p...

Really lovely conversation with @stevenstrogatz.com on The Daily today about AI, math, and the point of it all that you should absolutely find time to listen to - it takes a very different path than I would have expected and was quite beautiful

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I chatted with @radiolab.bsky.social about math and AI – hope you enjoy the conversation radiolab.org/podcast/math...

Birman is a true icon (and a fellow Jewish woman mathematician from NYC). Her work inspired me to study braids, and continues to inspire me almost daily. This is my favorite clip of her: youtu.be/SKcx7T0VjgY An incredibly accomplished mathematician and a brilliant expositor 🪢 🧮

This semester the CUNY Math Ed-Comm Seminar is becoming the NYC Math Ed-Comm Seminar!!! If you're in the greater NYC area and interested in creative ways to communicate about mathematics, recreational math and/or math art, check us out! sites.google.com/view/cuny-ma...

Bring some math into your holiday weekend and learn about some ridiculous, fascinating, and absolutely terrible ways to hang a picture. www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...

A free sample of BIG MATH (my new book with Alex Townsend) is now up on Amazon. Hope you like it! read.amazon.com/sample/03165...

BIG MATH received this very kind pre-publication review in Kirkus: kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... Six weeks till launch! Can't wait -- feeling jumpy...

Beautiful article about math and AI by Dan Rockmore. The connection to art and photography via Walter Benjamin was very fresh -- definitely worth reading, even if you're tired of reading about math and AI.

I had the honor of writing about Fields medalist Yu Deng for @TIME Magazine. The tricky part was to try to convey the essence of his brilliant work honestly, yet in terms the public might appreciate. time.com/collection/t...

My podcast with Janna Levin, THE JOY OF WHY, has been nominated for a Signal Award in the category "science and education". Please consider voting for us! vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

Mathematicians and scientists: Want to write for a broad audience about big ideas? Apply for the fully funded Beyond the Ivory Tower writing workshop at Wake Forest, Jan. 15–16, led by NYT editor James Ryerson. Applications due Oct. 9: beyondtheivorytower.com/workshop

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De todo lo que ha pasado últimamente, me quedo con un detalle: Steven Strogatz llorando por unas matemáticas "al borde de la comprensión humana" elpais.com/opinion/2026...

I feel like this would be a fun fill in the blank where every answer is correct: "I had a great conversation about _______ with @stevenstrogatz.com " "I had a great conversation about tile grouting with Steven Strogatz" and I'd still click that link.

Thanks! Sure! Here’s a short video. 

I don't use this word lightly, but if this is really happening (independent confirmation from reliable news sources would be good??) then I am stunned by the level of evil and contempt it displays. So much for Anthropic being the "good guys". xcancel.com/HedgieMarket...

Latest crazy story from the frontiers of math and AI -- a neurosurgery resident, with no training in advanced math, uses ChatGPT 5.6 to solve a major open problem in numerical linear algebra. alextownsend.net/essays/SIAMN...

“Currently, Google’s offering is all-or-nothing: If you want to show up in search results, you’re also agreeing to let the company feed your content into the maw of its AI apparatus.” By @katiebakes.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2026/08/04/t...

I actually don't mind being wrong.. we said this is what's happening on the Millennium Bridge.. what we proposed doesn't work. But it was interesting. We really did stick our neck out and unfortunately got our head chopped off. –Steven Strogatz, Cornell Professor @stevenstrogatz.com

What happens to beauty, truth, and proof when the prover isn't a person? Join hosts @stevenstrogatz.com and @jannalevinastro.bsky.social tomorrow for a discussion on AI and math in a special live recording of The Joy of Why podcast at #ICM2026. Reserve your spot: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-joy-of...

So great to see a @biographic.bsky.social story in @theopennotebook.bsky.social's, "The Best Science Stories and How They Work." The always thoughtful @bengoldfarb.bsky.social annotated a bG story by writer Kamala Thiagarajan. Great resource, grab your copy: www.theopennotebook.com/the-best-sci...

The end of an era: Manil Suri reflects on his impending retirement after several decades as a math professor, building his reminiscences around the artifacts of his office — the paper clips, the chalkboard, the overstuffed filing cabinets. manilsuri.substack.com/p/on-saying-...

Can also recommend Infinite Powers also by @stevenstrogatz.com Quite an achievement to make a book about calculus a great summer beach read! www.thalia.at/shop/home/ar...

The global neuronal workspace (GNW) is currently the best documented neuroscience mechanism by which conscious processing arises in the human brain — and now Anthropic researchers have discovered a similar workspace inside their large language model ! www.anthropic.com/research/glo...

Now with a nice "Editors' Suggestion" badge! We have some further rigorous results (i.e., not approximations) to follow shortly.

To give you a taste, here are the first three pages (from the page proofs - the book is still in production)

Last week, with the good excuse of a 15 min lecture, I have discovered taxicab geometry. Very fun and surprising to say the least! So I took my chance to type down the lecture in my blog. I hope you enjoy www.mseri.me/the-geometry... #mathSky #eduSky

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"Unputdownable" is an apt description of quite a lot of @stevenstrogatz.com's writing! I'm glad to see such passion from a student who asked for summer reading recommendations 😀.

For America's upcoming 250th anniversary, Time Magazine asked several people to suggest an example of a "Science and Health Breakthrough Shaping a New American Era." My suggestion: Big Math, the computer-assisted study of enormous systems. time.com/collection/o...

Our beloved dog Murray had a calm and happy ending with us yesterday morning. Eating bacon and hamburger with great pleasure until the anesthesia made him sleepy and he lay his face down and dreamed of chipmunks. We were petting him and telling him what a good boy he is.

“The Joy of Why” is back. In our first episode of the new season, pioneering biochemist Jennifer Doudna talks about how her early, “rebellious,” decision to study RNA led her to a Nobel Prize. Tune in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Really good podcast. The surprisingly simple formula is to get people who actually know what they’re talking about and let them talk. It’ll never catch on.

This terrific article by Siobhan Roberts could help elevate the public discussion of AI in mathematics. The interview about the Leiden Declaration is especially helpful. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/s...

I'm listening to a wonderful book about Roger Penrose, THE IMPOSSIBLE MAN, by @patchenbarss.bsky.social . Such gorgeous writing and sensitive storytelling. And the math & physics – and the sociology of science – are described so beautifully and compellingly! Bravo!