Oliver Johnson is Professor of Information Theory and Head of the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Numbercrunch (Heligo Books, 2023).
The maths behind the S-curves that allow us to tell if a new variant is on the rise.
How to tell quickly if a new variant is on the rise.
How can a 3 hour long film like the Lord of the Rings fit on a single DVD? Hw cn U rd txt msgs? How do MP3s make music files smaller, so they can be downloaded faster off the Internet? All these things rely on the mathematics of data compression.
