Steven Strogatz Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Perspectives of Nonlinear Dynamics: Volume 2
E. Atlee Jackson
@DynamicsSIAM @drdebadas Those are lecture notes that Dr. Herbert Huppert provided to all of us who were taking his Part II Nonlinear Diff Eqns course at Cambridge that year. The "Jackson appendix" I referred to is Appendix G in E. Atlee Jackson, Perspectives of Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol I.
Paperback, 1992
$101.00$76.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Proving It Her Way: Emmy Noether, a Life in Mathematics
David E. Rowe
Proving It Her Way: Emmy Noether, a Life in Mathematics, by David E. Rowe and Mechthild Koreuber https://t.co/4h6CzDeStQ
Paperback, 2020
$32.99$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mathematics for Human Flourishing
Francis Su
Today at 4:00 pm ET, my guest for "Meet a Mathematician" is Francis Su @mathyawp. Join us by registering (FREE!) here: https://momath.org/civicrm/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm%2Fevent%2Finfo&reset=1&id=7180 If you have never read his essay "Mathematics for Human Flourishing", you will be amazed and moved by it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5022pc2niqpxy97/Su_Mathematics%20for%20Human%20Flourishing.pdf?dl=0. https://t.co/T9sG9ABhLS
Paperback, 2021
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Golden Ticket: P, Np, and the Search for the Impossible
Lance Fortnow
@MichaelALewis10 @red_abebe @d_malinsky I learned a lot from the book THE GOLDEN TICKET by Lance @fortnow — https://t.co/cdFbGf1e0r
Paperback, 2017
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mathematics in Western Culture
Morris Kline
@fahimmumand I loved Mathematics in Western Culture by Morris Kline. (Vigorous writing and clear explanations. But it’s Eurocentric and probably not very accurate, historically.)
Paperback, 2002
$41.99$21.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
Dermot Turing
Forgotten heroes of the Enigma story https://t.co/BVok0CgxIK. A book review of "X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken," by Dermot Turing, The History Press (2018). (Dermot Turing is Alan’s nephew).
Paperback, 2022
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Women in Mathematics
Lynn M. Osen
Women in Mathematics, by Lynn M Osen https://t.co/6RgXcU02pK https://t.co/hPIIiWPbcH
Paperback, 1975
$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski
@stopdeboosting @matloff @karnavr In his masterpiece PBS series (and later book) “The Ascent of Man“, Jacob Bronowski said that Enrico Fermi was the cleverest man he ever knew, with one exception. Later in the book, he says that Johnny von Neumann was the cleverest man he ever knew, without exception.
Paperback, 2011
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mathematical Models in Biology
Leah Edelstein-Keshet
@GH0ST116 Leah Edelstein Keshet's book "Mathematical models in biology" has some chapters about discrete models and difference equations
Paperback, 2005
$90.99$65.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference
Claudia Henrion
Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference, by Claudia Henrion https://t.co/z9HahsVoFl
Paperback, 1997
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book