Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Combination of Zombies and Mathematics


A mathematics professor at the University of Ottawa has found a way to connect math with disease research in a lighthearted manner by adding some flesh-eating zombies.

It’s supposed to be an entertaining approach to disease modeling using fictional zombies to illustrate how real disease can be modeled with mathematics.

Robert Smith? (yes, that’s Smith with a question mark) is originally from Australia, now living in Canada, and studied sewage treatment, toxic waste cleanup, and infectious disease to earn his PhD.

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