Enrique M. Ligot, DCOMM

Steven Henry Strogatz, Applied Mathematics professor at Cornell University,
is a staunch advocate of making math more accessible to the public by writing
books, with Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe (2020) as
his fourth work. Through his writing, he shows how math as a language helps
us understand the world. Like other scientists, he stands on the shoulders of
Galileo (1623 in Drake, 1957) who observed that:
(Natural) philosophy is written in this grand book — I mean the Universe
— which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood
unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the
characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of
mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical
figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single
word of it; without these, one is wandering around in a dark labyrinth.
(pp. 237-8)