Friday, December 6, 2013

Math Says We Can Survive Zombie Apocalypse

Building on the work of another paper about how a zombie apocalypse would go down, because that’s a thing mathematicians apparently work on, Caitlyn Witkowski of Bryant University and Brian Blais of Brown University have written a paper on their mathematical findings that a zombie apocalypse wouldn’t wipe us all out, so that’s comforting.

For their paper, which was published on the arXiv pre-print server, the two sat down and binge-watched zombie movies, which makes us very jealous that we didn’t pursue a career in mathematics. They came to the conclusion that there are two separate kinds of zombie plagues: the Dawn of the Dead kind, where dying turns people into zombies whether they’ve been bitten or not, or the Shaun of the Dead kind, where a person needs to be mauled, or at least bitten, by the undead to become a zombie.

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