Eleanor Doman, Author at Chalkdust

Eleanor is a maths PhD student at UCL. She works on biomechanical models of nerves and is interested in the applications of mathematical modelling to biological and medical problems.

Page 3 model: Cooking spaghetti
17 April 2020
Some saucy modelling
Page 3 model: Bees
23 October 2019
You won't bee-lieve it
Black mathematician month 2019
1 October 2019
A month celebrating the contributions of black mathematicians
Page 3 model: Game of Thrones
14 March 2019
Using graph theory to predict who will sit the iron throne
Modelling blood
10 May 2018
Blood is exceptionally complicated and its composition varies from person to person. So how do we begin to model it?
Page 3 model: Frictional unemployment
12 March 2018
Modelling unemployment using simple differential equations!
Surname extinction
25 January 2018
Why do surnames die out? We take a look at the Galton-Watson process for modelling the extinction of surnames to answer the question: 'When will we all be Smiths?'
Christmas conundrum #3
18 December 2017
Try our nonograms! And remember, not all puzzles have a unique solution...
Why maps are wrong
15 September 2016
If only the Earth were flat...
The Drake equation
14 January 2016
Is there life on Mars? Or anywhere else?