5 papers
Counting Who Counts: Black Women Mathematicians in the United States
Olayemi Adeyemi, Ron Buckmire, Ranthony A. Clark +7
For Black women in the mathematical sciences, histories have frequently been fragmented or omitted from official records, an absence that itself constitutes a form of exclusion. Th…
Defunding Sexual Healthcare: A Topological Investigation of Resource Accessibility
Denise Gonzalez-Cruz, Genesis Encarnacion, Kaili Martinez-Beasley +5
Government actions, such as the Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Supreme Court ruling and the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill Act, have aimed to restrict or prohibit M…
Quantifying and Documenting Inequity in PhD-granting Mathematical Sciences Departments in the United States
Ron Buckmire, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Joseph E. Hibdon +6
We provide an example of the application of quantitative techniques, tools, and topics from mathematics and data science to analyze the mathematics community itself in order to qua…
The Mathematics of Mathematics: Using Mathematics and Data Science to Analyze the Mathematical Sciences Community and Enhance Social Justice
Ron Buckmire, Joseph E. Hibdon, Drew Lewis +4
We present and discuss a curated selection of recent literature related to the application of quantitative techniques, tools, and topics from mathematics and data science that have…
On definitions of "mathematician"
Ron Buckmire, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Joseph E. Hibdon +6
The definition of who is or what makes a ``mathematician" is an important and urgent issue to be addressed in the mathematics community. Too often, a narrower definition of who is…