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Introduction          Math significantly aids the criminal-justice system in catching criminals and “cracking down” on crime. In Patterns, Prevention, and Geometry of Crime by Martin Andresen and J. Bryan Kinney addresses how math does so in ten different studies, with each one focusing on using either patterns or geometry to prevent crime. The studies address the geometry of crime, crime patterns, and “crime generators” and “crime attractors.” Using math, criminal-justice professionals can take the patterns and geometry of crimes committed to create preventative techniques, to understand why criminals pick certain places and what led to those decisions, which includes six different methods, and how all that information fits together. Mobility Polygons One way to investigate the geometry of co-offending is by utilizing mobility polygons. Mobility polygons take all locations in a crime incident into account, including the where the crime occurred...

People influence others, either for the better or for the worse. This fact is clearly seen in the priority dispute between Isaac Newton, an English mathematician and scientist, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a German mathematician and lawyer, over the invention of fluxions, or differential calculus, calculus concerned with derivatives and differentials, as a result of both releasing their findings around the same time. Claiming priority was important because the person received the recognition for their accomplishment, thereby showing that anyone else that published similar theories was most likely copying. Newton and Leibniz had multiple areas of influence, including other mathematicians, journals, or colleagues. The men would not have gotten to the point they were at in their knowledge and careers if it were not for multiple parties. The priority dispute over calculus was heavily influenced by the people who supported or criticized Newton and Leibniz, whether in the early or later st...