Month: May 2026

Continuing to Solve Real Problems — With Math

In the last post, we discussed the spiffy model we had created called Humpty, that is, ALM.  What if one day you saw a picture that looked like this: Wow… that somewhat looks like COVID-19 cases, right?  The same general pattern occurs: it bounces up, levels off (mostly), and then shoots up again.  Except… it’s

Solving a Real Problem — with math.

The COVID-19 pandemic was a world-changing madhouse of a contagious disease.  People got sick and shared the virus with others, and there we go, off to the races.  I mean hospital. We have mathematical models for disease spread, so of course we could predict the number of cases!  It’s a tough problem but not unsolvable.