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What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, Volume 12 (Paperback)
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What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, Volume 12 (Paperback)
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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. In a more light-hearted vein, Descartes' ""Homework""
describes how a famous mathematician's blunder led to the discovery
of new properties of foam-like structures called Apollonian
packings. ""Square Pegs and Squiggly Holes"" shows that square pegs
fit virtually any kind of hole, not just circular ones. ""Much Ado
About Zero"" explains how difficult problems about eigenvalues of
matrices can sometimes be answered by playing a simple game that
involves coloring dots on a grid or a graph. Finally, ""Dancing on
the Edge of the Impossible"" provides a progress report on one of
the oldest and still most important challenges in number theory: to
devise an effective algorithm for finding all of the
rational-number points on an algebraic curve. In the great majority
of cases, number theorists know that the number of solutions is
finite, yet they cannot tell when they have found the last one.
However, two recently proposed methods show potential for breaking
the impasse.
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Imprint: |
American Mathematical Society
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences |
Release date: |
June 2022 |
Authors: |
Dana Mackenzie
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Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
126 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4704-6498-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Mathematics >
General
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LSN: |
1-4704-6498-5 |
Barcode: |
9781470464981 |
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