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How to work out doubling time
The doubling time for the Omicron variant seems to be scarily fast. But how do you calculate it?
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Maths in a minute: QALYs
What's a quality adjusted life year, or QALY?
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Pandemics and psychology
Can you capture people's behaviour in epidemiological models?
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Maths in a Minute: Turbulence and the Reynolds number
How does a smooth flow suddenly become turbulent? The Reynolds number helps understand the transition.
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Turbulence: Where do we stand?
Dive into the maths of turbulence!
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All about proofs
Why do mathematicians always want proof and what do they mean by it?
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The Plus advent calendar 2021
In this year's advent calendar we celebrate our collaboration with the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
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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!
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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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Solving crimes with maths: Bloodstain pattern analysis
Some basic trigonometry can deliver vital evidence from the scene of a crime.
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Solving crimes with maths: Busting criminal networks
A bit of graph theory can help to identify key players in a criminal network.
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Behind the scenes at the HLF 2021
We love talking to young researchers and laureates at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, and this year we produced a daily video diary to take everyone behind the scenes of this special digital HLF.