Steven Strogatz

Steven Strogatz is the Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. His honours include MIT's highest teaching prize, a lifetime achievement award for the communication of mathematics to the general public, and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research on a wide variety of nonlinear systems,from synchronized fireflies to small-world networks,has been featured in the pages of Scientific American, Nature, Discover, Business Week, and The New York Times.