Epidemic

Alfio Quarteroni
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Alfio Quarteroni: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Chapter 1 in Algorithms for a New World, 2022, pp 1-12 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The sky is clear over the city, the air fresh and the light is bright on this day, the umpteenth, of a strange spring. Silent streets, closed shops and offices, green parks in bloom without the usual chatter of children. And all of us waiting for the usual afternoon bulletin, with its litany of cold numbers that might either give us some hope or unsettle us further. We suddenly realize that we are cursed by averages, curves and ratios that we would have gladly continued to confine to a hidden corner of our memory, the one linked to our—often difficult—relationship with mathematics.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-96166-4_1

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