Steve Strogatz

In mathematics you’re allowed to do everything, for the most part, except for this.

Love 'em or hate 'em, you rely on numbers every day. We ask how they confuse us, connect us, and even reveal secrets about us.

We all have moments when, facing the future or staring into the vastness of space, we feel small. But are we small? One listener asked us to find out.

From favorite numbers to numbers that we’re suspicious of, from 501 jeans to Oxy 10, our feelings for these digits may all come down to some serious, subconscious inner-math.

Do we really live in a selfish, dog-eat-dog world? Or has evolution carved out a hidden code that rewards genuine cooperation?

In this short, writer Alex Bellos tells Robert how, from the very first time humans ever used numbers, we couldn’t help but give them human-like qualities.

If you've played with a Slinky for more than five minutes, you've probably mastered all the classic moves

In the late 1800s, mathematicians fantasized about a machine that could answer any math question at all.

Mark Nigrini shares the story of physicist Frank Benford, a man whose curiosity about a book inspired a bizarre discovery.

Producer Soren Wheeler brings us a story about a friendship between Steve Strogatz and his high school math teacher, Don Joffray.

Biology class is all about putting living things into categories, based on their differences.

Are living things really just machines made of little genetic parts?