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Steven Strogatz is doing OK
Recently, though, the math scholar and professor at Cornell University has been feeling more positive about AI's brusque entrance into the field to which he's devoted his life.
"I think I'm pretty far along into the acceptance phase," he told Business Insider on Wednesday.
Strogatz, 67, has become a kind of de facto spokesman for the math community since he shed tears last month on " The Daily," the popular New York Times podcast, while talking about the fleeting nature of human life.
"I may end up doing it with you," he told me about crying in front of a reporter. (He didn't.)
In the last two months, Strogatz said hundreds of people have sent him emails, from curious students to ministers asking to pray with him.
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