Day: August 11, 2026

I picked up Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Steven H. Strogatz because I wanted to explore how simple rules can create a world that is anything but simple. Before I got to the book, I listened to Strogatz’s lectures at Cornell, and those lectures intrigued me enough to want to read his work. There was something about the way he could take an idea that initially felt intimidating and make it feel almost intuitive. It made me curious about whether I could understand the mathematics without first becoming fluent in…