ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FUSES MATHEMATICS WITH SOCIAL SCIENCES
October 31, 2008
October 31, 2008
TEMPE, Ariz., Oct. 31 -- Arizona State University issued the following press release:
There's a new kind of math being taught at ASU, and it goes something like this: Take one globalized world, multiply by billions of people and add an influenza virus. Factor in extreme poverty and the fact that there are more people than vaccines. Using massive demographic, climate and health data sets, determine a vaccination distribution plan to prevent a deadly epidemic in rural Mexico. H . . .
There's a new kind of math being taught at ASU, and it goes something like this: Take one globalized world, multiply by billions of people and add an influenza virus. Factor in extreme poverty and the fact that there are more people than vaccines. Using massive demographic, climate and health data sets, determine a vaccination distribution plan to prevent a deadly epidemic in rural Mexico. H . . .