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Understanding influenza
Researchers have used mathematical modelling to understand the evolution of the influenza virus.
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Model behaviour
To study a system, mathematicians begin by identifying its most crucial elements, and try to describe them in simple mathematical terms. As Phil Wilson tells us, this simplification is the essence of mathematical modelling.
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The best medicine?
To make hard decisions, you need hard facts. Medical statistics can help us to decide what treatment to look for when we are ill, and to estimate our chances of recovery.
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Nobel mathematics
Mathematics makes a clean sweep in the Nobel Prizes.
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Anticipating anthrax
Can mathematics help defend against another attack?
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The mathematics of diseases
Over the past one hundred years, mathematics has been used to understand and predict the spread of diseases, relating important public-health questions to basic infection parameters. Matthew Keeling describes some of the mathematical developments that have improved our understanding and predictive ability.