SamizdatMath

Greetings phrens: this is a 41 page guide to how to think about the basic measures of central tendency in statistics (mean, median, mode and range) beyond the basic recitation of "here's how to do it." If you think about it, statistics is one of the most important and relevant area of mathematics that we teach. It is powerful because it allows us to take large amounts of data and and distilling it down into just a few numbers. However, very often these numbers are either irrelevant, non-repres

Abstract: Zombies are a popular figure in pop culture/entertainment and they are usually portrayed as being brought about through an outbreak or epidemic. Consequently, we model a zombie attack, using biological assumptions based on popular zombie movies. We introduce a basic model for zombie infection, determine equilibria and their stability, and illustrate the outcome with numerical solutions. We then refine the model to introduce a latent period of zombification, whereby humans are infected