Strogatz, the NYT, and Mathematical Packing

My latest article for the New York Times Learning Network turning Steven Strogatz’s wonderful “Math, Revealed” essays into teaching and learning resources is out. This piece is about mathematical packing, the age-old human quest to find efficiency in organization, and covers everything from packing soda cans in a box to packing information in high-dimensional spaces! It also includes some easy-to-state, but yet unsolved, mathematical conjectures about the best way to fit squares in squares.

The piece is freely available here, and includes free access to Professor Strogatz’s original essay.

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