Zombies and differential equations

[luzula]

I'm currently writing a computer lab assignment in MATLAB for a course in differential equations I'm teaching on this fall, and I'm letting the students model a zombie epidemic based on this article (yes, that was apparently published in a serious journal). It's fun to write a math assignment that contains the sentence "discuss the fate of humanity under a zombie epidemic". *g*

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[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

I have got to forward this to my son, Mathematician and zombie apocalypse prepared as he is...

[luzula]

He sounds like the ideal reader for that article, then! : )