Steven Strogatz Quotes

#1. When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.

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#2. One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

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#3. When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

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#4. The frequencies of the notes in a scale - do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do - sound to us like they're rising in equal steps. But objectively their vibrational frequencies are rising by equal multiples. We perceive pitch logarithmically.

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#5. ...nothing cements a friendship like hating the same person.

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#6. Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.

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#7. You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that have been created in the history of humanity. But that's too passive.

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#8. I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you.

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