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SUMMARY:Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World
LOCATION:Mann Library Room 160\, Cornell University Mann Library\, Cornell
  University\, Ithaca\, NY 14853\, USA
DESCRIPTION:We live in a world fueled by math that we barely notice. It’s 
 in every photo we post to Instagram\, every Google search we make\, and e
 very answer we get back from ChatGPT. It routes our packages and planes\,
  maps social networks\, and predicts the weather. This is Big Math\, a to
 olkit of powerful ideas such as matrices and vectors\, networks and optim
 ization at work\, allowing humanity to tackle problems too vast to hold i
 n our heads and transforming how we shop\, communicate\, live\, and heal.
 \n\nThe tools of Big Math are not especially new or mysterious—humans cre
 ated them\, and for most of their history we understood and controlled th
 em. But once we began supercharging them with computers to explore truly 
 enormous systems\, things changed. What happens when Big Math outgrows it
 s creators—when it becomes something we no longer understand\, but only w
 itness? In their new book\, Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World
  (Hachette\, 2026)\, Cornell mathematicians Steven Strogatz and Alex Town
 send illuminate some of the earth-shaking consequences of mathematical to
 ols that grow stronger and stranger every day to reflect on the challenge
  of living wisely with the enormous\, ongoing technological breakthroughs
  of our times.\n\nHosted by the Science and Agriculture Libraries of Corn
 ell University Library\, this talk is part of Cornell University Library'
 s "Chats in the Stacks" series that's free and open to the public. Virtua
 l attendance at this book talk is possible\; to register for the livestre
 a\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/7219cbf2-b531-4261-b424-7a225de7e58a
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