Steven Strogatz’s Secrets of Math Communication

Steven Strogatz — the acclaimed mathematician and author — hosts the new Quanta Magazine podcast "The Joy of Why." On March 18, 2022, he joined Quanta editor Thomas Lin for a Simons Foundation Presents conversation about teaching, writing and podcasting.

Quanta Magazine is an editorially independent publication supported by the Simons Foundation.

[thomas]

Loved this, thank you. As a programmer/person who has acquired an awe of mathematics, I've always wanted to fall in love with math but mostly have only found fear, confounding, and eventually exhaustion... I'm hopeful to find that Steven's work stirs a renewal in my pursuit. Thank you for the inspiration.

[leontedumitru]

This channel is just on another level. Great content

[othmanelkaddioui]

I admire how honest this man is and i would like to thank quanta magazine for this content

[bendavis]

I wish I had a teacher like Steven for my calculus class. It’s so important that the teacher actually loves their subject!

[prelude]

Thank you Steven for your honest and inspiring words.Thanks to the interviewer for his well chosen questions.

[davyroger]

This guy is spot on about loving a topic! Unfortunately too many teachers actually make students not only feel dumb but hate a subject. Once curiosity is engaged and the student starts to derive pleasure from the problems it self, the job of the teacher is completed

[belalsherif]

Infinite powers: best intro to calculus ever.
Strogatz is a great man

[energyeve]

The dictation function for writing sounds like such a great idea for people that struggle to write like myself. Thank you for sharing that!

[anirbanc]

i have tried to learn math in so many ways, and this session gave me a porfound change, thank you! loved this!

[loranelizabeth]

Such a terrific, engaging, FUN, interview! Thank you so much, Steven!

[lucytkmts]

There are not many people who can talk genuinely honestly out of his or her own heart and Steven is the one

[dylanparker]

Really enjoyed this & love the channel!

[davidwilkie]

Thank Steven's Wife and Daughter for Sync, it's good to read along with Professor Susskind's lectures that tend toward Holographic Principle Perspective Imagery. GD&P Actuality here-now-forever helps.

[lucytkmts]

More and more I realize that EACH people is different in everything, in any aspect of human actions and thinking. So what is most challenging is how to describe or simply talk what each wants to have understood. In this internet world knowlege is not a big challenge but HOW to describe is, which is as he says to intrigue his or her love on what we want to share. It should start with one simple sentence: What is it that you feel you would dream to have right now?

[mustbegross]

I can relate to him on how you would gradually fall in love with something difficult in the first place.

[KaiseruSoze]

I do hope to see "the joy of why" on youtube.

[uasserkamal]

this magazine gives me a different look to science

[jurgenstephanopolus]

"help the student fall in love with the question"
That's it.

[bygabop]

The most striking feature of exp(at) is that it is the eigenfunction of the linear operator, I believe.

[austingonzalez]

9:27. We're overproducing and failing at distribution? Sounds like he's a mathematics Karl Marx! haha. Proofs from each according to their ability, to each according to their proof need.