Arithmetic billiards
Need to find the least common multiple or greatest common divisor of two numbers? A billiard table of the right proportions holds the answers!
It may just be a matter of time before the next influenza pandemic strikes. Stephen Kissler, from the Cambridge Infectious Diseases group in DAMTP, is part of a group of Cambridge mathematicians who have just worked with the BBC on a programme, Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic, and together they have run a ground-breaking citizen science experiment that will help fight future pandemics.
Cambridge researchers, the BBC, and thousands of citizen scientists have created a revolutionary infectious disease data set.