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Maths in a minute: Odds ratiosIs your new face cream associated to getting spots? The odds ratio can help figure it out.

Maths in a minute: Gödel's incompleteness theoremsFind out about these important results that destroyed a mathematical dream.

The holographic principleOver the last few decades physicists have been developing a curious idea. Perhaps the world we inhabit is a hologram, lacking a crucial feature of the world as we perceive it: the third dimension.

Maths in a minute: Mathematical modelsA basic introduction to the most powerful tools in science and engineering.

e for exponential

At the beginning of an epidemic the number of infected people grows exponentially. But why does the number e appear in descriptions of this growth?

What is the generation time of a disease?To work out how a disease will spread you need to know the time between infections.

How can maths fight an epidemic?How can we use mathematics to model the spread of a disease?

The doubling time of a diseaseThe doubling time of a disease is the time it takes for the number of cases of the disease to double. How do you calculate it?

The growth rate of a diseaseWhat is the growth rate and what does it tell us about an epidemic?

R and herd immunityWhat is herd immunity and what does it have to do with a number called R?

Maths in a minute: AlgorithmsThe word "algorithm" has probably got more usage over the last few years than it has in its entire history. But what exactly is an algorithm?

Maths in a minute: Exponential growthWhat do we mean when we say that something grows exponentially?