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020			_a9781470464981
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100			_aMackenzie, Dana
245			_aWhat's happening in the mathematical sciences, Volume 12
260			_aProvidence: _bAmerican Mathematical Society, _c2022.
300			_avi, 126p.; _bpbk; _c25cm.
504			_aIncludes index and references
520			_aAs 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.
650			_aMathematical science
650			_aAmerican Mathematical Society
650			_aMathematics
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