

Maths Casualties is an investigative publication examining the human, social, and medical costs of mathematics when formal systems are embedded in institutions and granted authority over people’s lives.
Through historical and modern case files, the project traces how models, metrics, algorithms, and statistical abstractions shape decisions about care, risk, credibility, and worth—often while obscuring responsibility for the harm that follows. These are not stories about bad math, but about how mathematical convenience replaces judgment, how institutions defer to numbers, and how accountability is laundered through procedure.
Maths Casualties treats mathematics not as neutral description, but as power: a force that allocates resources, denies care, legitimizes exclusion, and survives its own failures through abstraction. Each investigation prioritizes evidence, causality, and documented outcomes over speculation or outrage.
This is not a newsletter about technology trends or academic theory. It is a record of what happens when formal systems outlive the people they govern.
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