Laura Arenschield

Some of us might have been happy to leave mathematics behind in high school or college, but as the COVID-19 pandemic has spread, math has had a daily effect on all of our lives – even if we don’t have to crunch the numbers ourselves.

Mathematical models — built on a foundation of calculus, statistics and probability theory — have been one of the driving forces behind policies, at least in Ohio, around the COVID-19 pandemic.