Math and Sleuthing Help to Explain Epidemics of the Past Posted on 2021/06/07 by Carl Robitaille Math and Sleuthing Help to Explain Epidemics of the Past Data science meets sleuthing: Terrific story about work by applied mathematician David Earn and colleagues, looking back at the Great Plague of London in 1665 and the invasion of the Black Death in the 1300s. Earn and team found clever ways to chart these long-ago epidemics. https://t.co/WWs7c1kf8y— Steven Strogatz (@stevenstrogatz) May 21, 2021