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How Strogatz Got His Start

Interviewed on NPR's "Ask Me Another," Steven Strogatz (Cornell University) discloses more than just the degrees of separation between himself and Kevin Bacon.

In a tale that involves angle bisectors, tuning out in French class, and serving a proof on a pajama-clad teacher on a Sunday morning, Strogatz tells how he got hooked on mathematics.

Listen to the story.

Start Date: 
Tuesday, August 20, 2013