The real issue here is that most universities in this country are overwhelmingly dependent on year-to-year revenue from tuition to cover their operating expenses. Flagship state schools and famous institutions with huge endowments are somewhat better protected, but only so much.
Evolution of the notation for the empty set: 0 – George Boole 🇬🇧 (1847) 𝑂 – Georg Cantor 🇩🇪 (1880) {} – Gottlob Frege 🇩🇪(1882) Λ – Giuseppe Peano 🇮🇹 (1889) ∅ – Andre Weil 🇫🇷 (1939)
When I said that the US is having one Wuhan a day (50k/day #coronavirus cases in the US vs. 50k for all time in Wuhan), many people responded: "You can't trust the Chinese numbers."
There are so many layers to that answer that it's worth deconstructing. Thread [1/23]
