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A Mathematical Model For a Spreading Zombie Infestation

Posted by Soulskill on from the integrating-by-parts dept.

cloude-pottier writes "What do you do when zombies attack? Turn to a mathematician to come up with a model for the spread of a zombie infestation, of course! Students at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa have published a paper in a book titled Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress detailing how to model the spread of a zombie population and various complications in managing the spread of the infestation. They even give humans a fighting chance in some cases! The original paper (PDF) can be found at their professor's website."

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  1. Been done by computer scientists already by The_mad_linguist · · Score: 4, Informative

    Prior art: http://kevan.org/proce55ing/zombies/

  2. Senior author by plasmidmap · · Score: 2, Informative

    The senior author is a professor at the university I attend--he is a super nice guy and does very interesting non-zombie related research too.