We may think we experience how best to eradicate the zombie scourge , but movies and books give us , at best , an anecdotal account of how to deal with the undead . A new theme , however , offer mathematical role model for human survival .
In a paper published in Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress , a squad of mathematician from Carleton University and the University of Ottawa have make a series of numerical models to search the personal effects of a snake god outbreak and determine the best course for human survival . For the purpose of the paper , the team confine their simulation to the George Romero slow - moving zombi , and created separate model for zombie infections that cause the infected to resurrect immediately after contact lens with a zombie and for zombie infections with a 24 - minute brooding menstruum .
The newspaper try out three possible methods of parcel out with a zombie outbreak : quarantine of the zombies , treatment of zombies so that they once again become human , and impulsive obliteration of the zombies whenever potential . The model discover that quarantine could influence , but the closing result would be either the eradication of all zombies or the obliteration of all man ; if a cure for being a zombie were determine , humans would coexist with zombies , but only in down numbers ; but eradication , if right coordinated , could wipe out the entire zombie population in a simple ten 24-hour interval .
Science has show it : aim for the head , and kill without mercy .
When Zombies Attack ! : Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection[University of Ottawa ]
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