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Mathematical Epidemiology: Past Findings and Future Possibilities

By: Madhav Parthasarathy Have you ever wondered how and why diseases spread? Well, the answer to that is Mathematical Epidemiology! Mathematical Epidemiology is the mathematical modeling of diseases to determine the rate at which people become infected with diseases. The study of infectious disease data

Partitions in Math

Written by Madhav Parthasarathy A partition of a natural number is the way of writing these numbers as the sum of other natural numbers. The first mathematician to introduce the topic of partitions was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who is more famously known as one of

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Synthetic Geometry and Euclid’s Elements

Written by Matthew Niemiro Records on the study of geometry date back thousands of years. Between 2000and 1600 BC, ancient Babylonians studied the properties of triangles regardingratio and proportion, and developed what would become the PythagoreanTheorem long before Pythagoras (“The Origins of Geometry,” n.d.). Similargeometric