Terrific post by ⁦Cory Simon⁩ about diffusion on graphs. Nice visualizations and great intuition about what the “graph Laplacian” is, what it measures, and why it is given that name. simonensemble.github.io/pluto_nbs/grap…

Randomly select 365 people and mark their birthdays on a calendar. Days on which none of the 365 people have a birthday will remain unmarked. Let U be the number of such unmarked days. Then 365/U is approximately the transcendentally ubiquitous number e, 2.718 … Eerie! #math

A journalistic dream come true. Thank you to the The Pulitzer Prizes jury and board and to the amazing journalists at Quanta Magazine, especially Natalie Wolchover.

A nice profile about my PhD advisor Persi Diaconis: bbc.com/future/article…

More quantum mechanical humor

A little quantum mechanical humor

If the universe is fundamentally quantum, where does our classical reality come from? One popular explanation looks to be collapsing. Philip Ball reports: quantamagazine.org/physics-experi…

I was plotting the Lorenz map for the Lorenz system, zooming in on a small section of it. Can anyone point me to literature on this? Is this really the structure, or is this a numerical artifact? (colours related to the time that each pair (z_n,z_n+1) occur. Steven Strogatz

I'm excited to share a paper extending our theory of 'localization of pattern formation' to quite general nonlinear cross-diffusion/chemotaxis systems. This is the theory behind the Turing patterns on Turing's face, and other fun things. 1/5

arxiv.org/abs/2210.10155

As it is a slow news day.
Here is a retweet of my last years Maths Week Ireland podcast recommendations.
This year additions are:
+ BBC More or Less
+ The Joy of Why by Steven Strogatz
+ A Problem Squared by
Matt Parker & Bec Hill
#MathsWeek2022

Program: Polymath Jr-REU2023 - Williams College, Mathematics and Statistics - US, Virtual, Williamstown. #MathPrograms1352 mathprograms.org/db/programs/13…

For undergrads who want to do some math research next summer but can't do a traditional REU for whatever reason! Ask me any questions you've got, I've been involved for 2 years.

Hi prof. Strogatz if you’re reading this!Thank you for timing the lecture on Taylor series perfectly with the release of Taylor Swift’s 10th studio album #Midnights 🤩

Feast your eyes on the proton, the 'most complicated thing you could possibly imagine,' according to MIT physicist Mike Williams, who added, 'In fact, you can’t even imagine how complicated it is.” Kudos to Charlie Wood, Merrill Sherman and Natalie Wolchover: quantamagazine.org/inside-the-pro…

Watched 'A Trip to Infinity' last night, I appreciated the thought exercises. A fascinating topic. The film was also visually appealing. My partner who is not science oriented wants to watch it again! Thanks Steven Strogatz et al. Netflix netflix.com/title/81273453

Some thoughts on Temple Grandin’s recent critique of algebra wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2022/10/temple…