3 papers
math.HO2026
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…
math.AT2023
Topological analysis of U.S. city demographics
Jakini A. Kauba, Thomas Weighill
We apply persistent homology, the main method in topological data analysis, to the study of demographic data. Persistence diagrams efficiently summarize information about clusters…
math.HO2023
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…