Steven Strogatz

Steven H. Strogatz ( born August 13, 1959 in Torrington, Connecticut) is Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He is primarily known for his work in the field of synchronization of dynamic systems. Strogatz earned his doctorate at Harvard University in 1989 and taught after the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to Cornell University in 1994.

His numerous publications include the areas of Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Biology and Chronobiology (in collaboration with Arthur Winfree ) and especially small-world phenomenon in networks. His published in collaboration with Duncan Watts 1998 Working Collective dynamics of 'small -world ' networks counted in the next decade, with 2700 citations of the most cited publications in physics. For 2014, he was awarded the Euler Book Prize for The Joy of x.

Publications (selection)

  • The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2012
  • Synchronous. From the enigmatic rhythm of nature, 2004, Berlin -Verlag, ISBN 3- 8270-0439 -X.
  • With Duncan Watts:. Collective dynamics of 'small -world ' networks, 1998 Nature # 393, S.440 -42 online (PDF)
  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Engineering, 1994, Addison -Wesley Publ, ISBN 0-201-54344-3.
  • The Mathematical Structure of the Human Sleep - Wake Cycle, 1986, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-17176-2.
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