t the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat, the sound of cycles in sync. Along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies congregate and flash in unison; the moon spins in perfect resonance with its orbit around the earth; our hearts depend on the synchronous firing of ten thousand pacemaker cells. While the forces that synchronize the flashing of firefli...(展开全部)

Steven Strogatz，哈佛大学博士，曾担任哈佛大学和麻省理工学院讲师。1994年成为康奈尔大学应用数学教授，在混沌理论和复杂性理论方面的开创性研究工作获得了广泛认可。在职业生涯中获奖无数，包括麻省理工学院教学奖和美国总统青年研究员奖。

"Sync" is a story of a dazzling kind of order in the universe, the harmony that comes from cycles in sync. The tendency to synchronize is one of the most far-reaching drives in all of nature. It extends from people to planets, from animals to atoms. In "Sync" professor Steven Strogatz considers a range of applications - human sleep and circadian rhythms, menstrual synchrony, in...(展开全部)