Titlebook: Math in the Time of Corona; Alice Wonders Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer N

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The Home-Field Paradox, and is declared the series winner. The teams are evenly matched except that each team enjoys the same slight advantage when playing at home. If, every year, the first three games are played at the home of team A and all subsequent games at the home of team B, which team has the advantage?

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A View from Lockdown: Mathematics Discovered, Invented, and Inherited, from my own mathematical work during the Coronavirus lockdown, I argue that there is also a third way: new mathematics can also be inherited. And entering into possession, making it your own, could be great fun.

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Exponentials and the Virus,ead across the globe. Initially called nCov-19 or novel coronavirus 2019, the virus was renamed SARS-CoV-2 when analysis showed that it was closely related to the coronavirus that led to the SARS epidemic of 2003.

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The Consolation of Math in Plague Time,preliminary thoughts, working them up into some notes that eventually took the form of an article. When I submitted it to the Mathematical Intelligencer, it was suggested that I also submit an excerpt of it, or a short similar essay, to this volume. I’m very happy to do this!

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Singularities at Home, Unofficial Observations,voted to aspects of communication in mathematical sciences with the outside world, sometimes under unusual circumstances. Various considerations are developed from the viewpoint “singularities alone at home”. Singularities belong to the challenges in geometry and mathematical analysis and they may b

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An Essay in the Time of Corona,ead. So simple a meal, and yet so far way now. The world was already at the dawn of a new age of perplexity. After taking my friend to her place, I headed to mine into lockdown. This was on a Sunday, March 15 of the virulent year of 2020; it was just four months before but it seems four long decades

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Ups and Downs,ology. I have held the René Thom Chair in Mathematical Biology at the IHéS since 2014, after having been a frequent visiting professor there for decades. Since June, 2019, I have been studying viral glycoproteins, leading to the two papers . and ., both in the .. In the first, I propose a geometric

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The Co-Video Mathematician, unless I look closely. I go for a hike with my family or watch my son play ball or my daughter do gymnastics. It feels normal till I look more closely and see how spread out we are, how little conversation there is in the stands. Other times what we have lost is clear, especially on days when my ki

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,What you always wanted to know about …? exponential growth,less surprised that people find it difficult to interpret them and that they underestimate the danger so clearly signaled by their rapid growth. On my long way from the first day in school in a small town in Bavaria to a chair for mathematics at the University of Bern in Switzerland I was accompanie