What's happening in the mathematical sciences, Volume 12
Mackenzie, Dana
What's happening in the mathematical sciences, Volume 12 - Providence: American Mathematical Society, 2022. - vi, 126p.; pbk; 25cm.
Includes index and references
As always, What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences presents a selection of topics in mathematics that have attracted particular attention in recent years. This volume is dominated by an event that shook the world in 2020 and 2021, the coronavirus (or COVID-19) pandemic. While the world turned to politicians and physicians for guidance, mathematicians played a key role in the background, forecasting the epidemic and providing rational frameworks for making decisions. The first three chapters of this book highlight several of their contributions, ranging from advising governors and city councils to predicting the effect of vaccines to identifying possibly dangerous “escape variants” that could re-infect people who already had the disease. In recent years, scientists have sounded louder and louder alarms about another global threat: climate change. Climatologists predict that the frequency of hurricanes and waves of extreme heat will change. But to even define an “extreme” or a “change,” let alone to predict the direction of change, is not a climate problem: it's a math problem. Mathematicians have been developing new techniques, and reviving old ones, to help climate modelers make such assessments.
https://bookstore.ams.org/happening-12/#:~:text=Mathematicians%20have%20been%20developing%20new,like%20structures%20called%20Apollonian%20packings.
9781470464981
Mathematical science
American Mathematical Society
Mathematics
510 / MAC
What's happening in the mathematical sciences, Volume 12 - Providence: American Mathematical Society, 2022. - vi, 126p.; pbk; 25cm.
Includes index and references
As always, What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences presents a selection of topics in mathematics that have attracted particular attention in recent years. This volume is dominated by an event that shook the world in 2020 and 2021, the coronavirus (or COVID-19) pandemic. While the world turned to politicians and physicians for guidance, mathematicians played a key role in the background, forecasting the epidemic and providing rational frameworks for making decisions. The first three chapters of this book highlight several of their contributions, ranging from advising governors and city councils to predicting the effect of vaccines to identifying possibly dangerous “escape variants” that could re-infect people who already had the disease. In recent years, scientists have sounded louder and louder alarms about another global threat: climate change. Climatologists predict that the frequency of hurricanes and waves of extreme heat will change. But to even define an “extreme” or a “change,” let alone to predict the direction of change, is not a climate problem: it's a math problem. Mathematicians have been developing new techniques, and reviving old ones, to help climate modelers make such assessments.
https://bookstore.ams.org/happening-12/#:~:text=Mathematicians%20have%20been%20developing%20new,like%20structures%20called%20Apollonian%20packings.
9781470464981
Mathematical science
American Mathematical Society
Mathematics
510 / MAC
