Now I have your attention. Steven Strogatz is the author of "The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity." He's also professor of applied math at Cornell in Ithaca. He joins us from ...

Is that right? STEVEN STROGATZ: It’s a complicated thing. He was certainly really good at math. No doubt. It’d be an exaggeration to say he wasn’t great. But what he wasn’t great at was being a ...

In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with computational biologist Franziska Michor about how math, statistical models and machine learning may be critical to the next generation of cancer ...