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96. Steven Strogatz Thinks You Don’t Know What Math Is

People I (Mostly) Admire

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How Did You Write the Most Cite Research Paper of All Time?

A paper written by you and your student is one of the hundred most cited research papers of all time. Can you explain what that paper is about and why it's so influential? We have crickets in Ithaca where I teach at Cornell that are the champions of synchronization. If we could figure this out, this will have implications for neuroscience because my friends in neurobiology had always said to me, every brain cell is six synapses away from every other brain cell in the human brain.

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