Mathematics and the Family Tree of SARS-Cov-2 It’s a remarkable process and, if it weren’t so dangerous to humanity, would be deserving of admiration. … Bill Casselman University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Introduction There are two major ways in which mathematics has contributed to our understanding of the diseaseRead More →
Points, Lines, and Incidences To honor Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month, I will treat some remarkable developments concerning a basic intuitive idea in geometry concerning points and lines. … Joseph Malkevitch York College (CUNY Introduction When people think about mathematics they think of numbers and shapes. Numbers covers the interestRead More →
From Strings to Mirrors To tell you where mirror symmetry came from, I have to tell you about string theory. And to do that, I have to tell you why you should care about string theory in the first place. That story starts with an old question: what is theRead More →
The intent of this column is to explain how [Claude] Shannon proposed that we measure information and how this measure helps us understand the rate at which it can be transmitted. … David Austin Grand Valley State University Introduction Tech news these days is filled with stories about the upcomingRead More →
More Measles In this column, I shall say more about modeling the progress of an epidemic. ... Bill Casselman University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Introduction This is the second Feature Column in which I discuss the mathematics involved in the transmission of measles. The first one made a fewRead More →