Editorial: The Planet’s Pandemic Pandemonium

摘要

These are the first two issues of 2021 although we are still in May 2020 amidst a pandemic thathas created pandemonium across the globe. This double issue has numerous mathematicallyoriented journal articles that should stimulate readers that have to remain home due tomovement restrictions or otherwise. Stranger things have not happened to most of us in ourlifetime. It is truly ironic that when pollution is at an all-time low in many parts of the world,human beings have to venture out in the clean air wearing masks! In Mumbai (India), there arereports of bird species like flamingos that rarely visited anymore due to the pollution, reappearing over the course of the last few months, having rediscovered their old migratorygrounds. In the absence of human activity and industrial chaos- the twin bedrocks of the usurers’pipe dream of never ending economic growth, we are witnessing the resurgence of other speciesthat also belong to our planet. Yet human activity is also responsible for the ingenuity resultingin technological connectivity that lets us adapt to the demands made by the pandemic.