Steven Strogatz's 'Big Math' hits shelves with rave blurbs on AI-era math
stevenstrogatz · x · 2026-10-31
Mathematician Steven Strogatz announced his new book Big Math is out, sharing the back cover packed with blurbs from James Gleick, Melanie Mitchell, Sean Carroll, Steven Levitt and Jordan Ellenberg. Gleick calls it 'essential reading for our increasingly confused times,' saying it 'cuts through the flood of mystification around AI.' Alan Alda's blurb quips that 'your chatbot doesn't want you to read this book.' The book traces how math has scaled from quantum computing to Amazon warehouses — what the author calls the Big Math era.
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