Professor calculates a cooler planet
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 17:28
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some people fight global warming by driving fuel-efficient cars. Others weatherproof their houses or plant trees. Princeton's René Carmona does math. As the United States and other countries around the world debate how to best reduce the production of greenhouse gases, Carmona hopes to bring the objectivity - and rationality - of mathematics to bear on the problem.