Coronavirus: What does exponential growth mean?
Disease grew exponentially in its initial stages but that cannot continue indefinitely
The many modern uses of quaternions
That’s Maths: A surprising application is to electric toothbrushes but they have many vital functions
Explainer: Has Michael Atiyah conquered the Everest of mathematics?
Atiyah offers ‘simple proof using a radically new approach’ of the Riemann hypothesis
Automatic face recognition: how it works
That’s Maths: We are photographed numerous times every day and have little idea who is collecting the information
Fourier’s wonderful idea: Breaking complex signals into simple pieces
That’s Maths: The Fast Fourier Transform dramatically reduced the way computation scales with problem size, making it practicable to solve many problems that could not otherwise be tackled
Stemming the spread of epidemics
That’s Maths: Widespread vaccination can prevent epidemics by replacing the exponential rate of spread by a linear growth rate
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