Handbook of Mathematics for Societal Challenges
摘要
Mathematics plays a fundamental role across nearly every aspect of modern society. It underpins technology, finance, healthcare, urban planning, and public policy. In economics and medicine, it's crucial for modeling, risk analysis, and decision-making. Urban development relies on mathematical tools for infrastructure planning and resource optimization. Social sciences increasingly use statistics for program evaluation and understanding trends. Mathematics also intersects with ethical and social justice issues, such as in predictive policing and sentencing algorithms. The Handbook highlights how mathematics is vital in addressing complex global challenges, including climate change and rapid urbanization. Through advanced modeling and data analysis (e.g., Kalman filtering, Bayesian inference), mathematics helps interpret environmental data and predict extreme weather. These challenges affect society deeply, prompting migration and exposing infrastructural weaknesses. The Handbook explores how mathematical tools address both visible and hidden societal issues shaped by human activity.
Editorial Advisory Board:
Ljiljana Arambasic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Lucio Cadeddu , Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy
Marcos Aurelio Capistrán, CIMAT, Mexico
Vanja Dukic, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA
Harry Lewis, Harvard University, USA
Gerrit Lohmann, Alfred Wegener Institute, University of Bremen, Germany
Teresa Melo, Saarland University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Atish Mitra, Montana Technological University, USA
Maurice Salles, Université de Caen Normandie, France
Amartya Sen, Harvard University, USA
Steven Strogatz, Cornell University, USA
Shantia Yarahmadian, Mississippi State University, USA