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Maths in a minute: The exponential distribution
How long do you have to wait for something to happen?
Maths in a minute: The Poisson distribution
What's the chance that something happens?
Maths in a minute: The binomial distribution
Measuring your chance of success.
Why the generation time of COVID-19 is important
To work out the famous
R
number you need to know the time between infections.
Understanding the generation time for COVID-19
How long does it take for one person to infect another?
Parabolati
A beautiful argument to show that all parabolae are similar.
How to work out doubling time
The doubling time for the Omicron variant seems to be scarily fast. But how do you calculate it?
Maths in a minute: QALYs
What's a quality adjusted life year, or QALY?
Pandemics and psychology
Can you capture people's behaviour in epidemiological models?
Maths in a Minute: Turbulence and the Reynolds number
How does a smooth flow suddenly become turbulent? The Reynolds number helps understand the transition.
Life on the beach with Markov chains
Markov chains are exceptionally useful tools for calculating probabilities, and they might increase your chance of getting to the beach!
Maths in a Minute: Fluid dynamics and the Euler equations
How does water, or indeed any fluid, move? The Euler equations let us look beneath the surface and mark the beginning of modern fluid dynamics.
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