Contribution of Cartography to the Understanding of Health Issues

Abstract: Mathematics has given a great deal to cartography, notably in methods for dividing up space (polygons). In 1938, Bachelard, the eminent scientific philosopher, wrote about the need to introduce mathematics into other sciences: hostility to mathematics is a bad sign when it is combined with the desire to directly engage with scientific phenomena. According to Rene Thom, mathematics is the “universal theoretical language”. Lafforgue (Professor of mathematics and Fields Medal recipient in 2002) points out that mathematics notably enables us to produce measurements which are highly useful to cartographers in their approach to analyzing space.