Hans Haubold (UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs), together with A M Mathai (Centre for Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, CMSS), and Lewis Pyenson (Western Michigan University), has authored three publications that explain how the project is actively building an expert community of space scientists spanning the entire globe.
Science and mathematics are often seen as an expression of the true nature of the world around us. Yet as researchers seek to understand and control nature by studying these fields, their efforts will inevitably be intertwined with the widely varying cultures of human society: a theme that has played out throughout the entire history of scientific discovery.