Erin
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Roman Dial:
I am a fellow lover of wilderness and adventure. Looking forward to when your next book comes out. Our hearts go out to your family and you (TAS). Will your next book include a connection between mathematics and the natural world? Or how you use mathematics when out in the wilderness?
Roman Dial
Hi Erin,
Thank you for your question and expression of sympathy. Writing the Adventurer's Son emotionally drained me, but it was so very important for me to write it.
My next book will be about climate change's effects in the Brooks Range as seen through the lens of my experiences in America's biggest wilderness. It will include science and adventure and relationships among people.
As certain aspects of science are quantitative ones, and the best tool for logically exploring quantities is mathematics, scientific results often rely on mathematics. For example, as the climate warms, mathematical models can tell us how fast vegetation might climb up mountainsides. However, I doubt that I'll include any equations in the narrative.
One story that I would like to tell in this upcoming Brooks Range book, however, is about an application of a mathematical model to predict how far two of us could travel across the wilderness carrying all of our food, without caches, help, or foraging.
Having taught calculus since my 20s, I've come to appreciate the importance of making math accessible and pertinent. I hope to do this in the Brooks Range book without any equations.
Thank you for your question and expression of sympathy. Writing the Adventurer's Son emotionally drained me, but it was so very important for me to write it.
My next book will be about climate change's effects in the Brooks Range as seen through the lens of my experiences in America's biggest wilderness. It will include science and adventure and relationships among people.
As certain aspects of science are quantitative ones, and the best tool for logically exploring quantities is mathematics, scientific results often rely on mathematics. For example, as the climate warms, mathematical models can tell us how fast vegetation might climb up mountainsides. However, I doubt that I'll include any equations in the narrative.
One story that I would like to tell in this upcoming Brooks Range book, however, is about an application of a mathematical model to predict how far two of us could travel across the wilderness carrying all of our food, without caches, help, or foraging.
Having taught calculus since my 20s, I've come to appreciate the importance of making math accessible and pertinent. I hope to do this in the Brooks Range book without any equations.
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