The Mathematics of Zombies
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Zombies Night of the Living Dead, George Romero, 1968.
What do you do if there is a Zombie attack?
Can mathematics help?
This page is (humorously) dedicated to collecting links to papers
or blog posted related to the mathematical models of Zombies.
George Romero's 1968
Night of the Living Dead,
now in the public domain, introduced reanimated ghouls, otherwise known as
zombies, which craved live human flesh.
Romero's script was insired on Richard Matheson's
I Am Legend.
In Romero's version, the zombies could be killed by destroying the
A dead human could, in some cases be "reanimated," turning into a zombie.
These conditions are modeled mathematically in several papers, given
When Zombies Attack! Mathematical Modelling of a Zombie Outbreak!, paper by
Mathematicians at the University of Ottawa, Philip Munz, Ioan Hudea, Joe Imad and Robert J. Smith?
(yes, his last name is spelled "Smith?").
28 Minutes Later - The Maths of Zombies , made by Dr James Grime (aka, "siningbanana"), which references the above paper.
in the presence of social attraction and repulsion, Oct 2010 Zombie paper by
Evelyn Sander and Chad M. Topaz.
Statistical Inference in a Zombie Outbreak Model, slides for a talk given by Des Higman, May 2010.
Mathematics kills zombies dead!, 08/17/2009 blog post by "Zombie Research Society Staff".
Mathematics of Zombies,
August 18, 2009 blog post by Mike Elliot.
Love, War and Zombies - Systems of
Differential Equations using Sage, April 2011
slides by David Joyner.
Sage commands for
Love, War and Zombies talk.
This was given as a
Project Mosaic/M-cast broadcast.
Public domain 1968 film
Night of the Living Dead by George Romero.
Created 2011-04-21 by wdjoyner. Last modied 2012-01-15.