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"Some of What Mathematicians Do" - Martin H. Krieger demystifies the work of mathematicians in the November issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society. He suggests that mathematics could be described "as showing that what might seem arbitrary is actually necessary, as analyzing everyday notions, as calculation, and as analogizing."
Martin Krieger, World Scientific author of Doing Mathematics, is professor of planning at University of Southern California and authors an online column called This Week's Finds in Planning. He joined the USC faculty in 1984.
Professor Krieger does social-science informed photographic documentation of Los Angeles: storefront houses of worship (Vernacular Sacred), DWP electrical distribution stations, and industrial Los Angeles (his current major project). He is also a Research Fellow of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture. He has worked in the fields of planning and design theory, ethics and entrepreneurship, and mathematical models of urban spatial processes. He has, as well, an ongoing concern with the role of the humanities in planning.
Professor Krieger has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the National Humanities Center. He has taught at the University of California (Berkeley), the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), MIT, and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Professor Krieger received his doctorate in physics from Columbia.
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