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Steven H. Strogatz (born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at
Cornell University. He is known for his contributions to the study of synchronization in
dynamical systems, and for his work in a variety of areas of
applied mathematics, including
mathematical biology and
complex network theory.
In particular, his 1998
Nature paper with
Duncan Watts, entitled "Collective dynamics of
small-world networks", is widely regarded as a seminal contribution to the new interdisciplinary field of "complex networks," whose applications reach from graph theory and statistical physics to sociology, business, epidemiology, and neuroscience. As one measure of this paper's impact, it's the most highly cited article about networks in the past decade, according to the ISI Web of Science.
Strogatz's books include the textbook
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos and the trade book
Sync, chosen as a Best Book of 2003 by Discover Magazine.
Strogatz attended the
Loomis Chaffee School (1972-1976) and graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in mathematics from
Princeton University in 1980. He was a
Marshall Scholar at
Trinity College, Cambridge from 1980-1982, and then received a PhD in applied mathematics from
Harvard University in 1986 for his research on the dynamics of the human sleep-wake cycle. After spending three years as a
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard and
Boston University, he joined the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at
MIT in 1989. In 1994 he moved to Cornell where he is the
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, as well as a Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and the current Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics.
Strogatz has been lauded for his ability as a teacher and communicator. In 1991 he was honored with the E.M. Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, MIT's only institute-wide teaching award selected and awarded solely by students. He has also won several teaching awards from Cornell's College of Engineering, including the
Tau Beta Pi Excellence in Teaching Award (2006), given to a faculty member selected by engineering students for exemplary teaching. At the national level, Strogatz received the
JPBM Communications Award in 2007. Presented annually, this award recognizes outstanding achievement in communicating about mathematics to nonmathematicians. The JPBM represents the
American Mathematical Society, the
American Statistical Association, the
Mathematical Association of America, and the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
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