The mathematics of infectious diseases

Hethcote, H. W. (2000). The mathematics of infectious diseases. SIAM Review, 42(4), 599-653.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2000

DOI

10.1137/s0036144500371907

Link

https://doi.org/10.1137/S0036144500371907

Cited from

biology_ecology, physics

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Primes

• Contagion
  • This is not the same as a substance flowing downhill or diffusing along a gradient; what travels in contagion is a state that copies itself on contact, so the affected population can grow super-linearly rather than simply redistributing a fixed quantity.
• Propagation
  • A forest fire propagates through fuel availability; a software error propagates through call stacks; a law propagates through courts and precedent.

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