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Articles by Alex Doak

Alex Doak
Alex Doak is a PhD student at UCL researching fluid mechanics. alexander.doak.11@ucl.ac.uk
All articles by Alex
  • Binary magic card trick

    Binary magic card trick

    9 December 2016
    Behind today's door... A binary magic card trick!
  • Killing by numbers: the mathematics of warfare

    Killing by numbers: the mathematics of warfare

    13 October 2016
    A blast from the past. Modelling battle grounds from ancient Greece.
  • A counterintuitive result in the theory of traffic flow

    A counterintuitive result in the theory of traffic flow

    18 February 2016
    Additional roads do not imply faster travel times!

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