What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences by Dana Mackenzie
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Updating models for predicting the spread of epidemics by explicitly incorporating the international air traffic network and more is the subject of one fascinating article. Other articles cover a geometry based on tropical algebra (where the “Freshman’s Dream” is actually true) and advances, both robotic and theoretical, in speed-solving the basic Rubik’s cube and its variants. The topologically inclined will enjoy articles on open problems solved and conjectures proven regarding minimizing surfaces and hyperbolic manifolds.
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