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Coronavirus Polymath project | Tangente

A Polymath project on the coronavirus

The mathematical community is joining the fight against the pandemic.

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Jacques Bair
PublishedMay 19, 2020UpdatedSeptember 20, 2026
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Covid-19, a mathematical approach
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June 2020N° 194
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Covid-19, a mathematical approach

Series of 9 articles
  1. The "9-3": a Covid hotspot or bad math?Brief
  2. A Polymath project on the coronavirusReading
  3. A protocol named RobertBrief
  4. How to stay well informedBrief
  5. An equation with too many unknownsArticle
  6. Epidemiological statisticsBrief
  7. Between plague and cholera: the birth of epidemiologyArticle
  8. Covid-19: mathematics to the rescueArticle
  9. Real-time modelling and calculationsArticle

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