What is it to model an epidemic? 30.04.20
Welcome to The Plague Pit In this issue – number 11 – I’m delighted to present this article by Dr John Cullerne, Undermaster at Winchester College, where he teaches Physics and Maths. In September 2014, at the height of the West African Ebola outbreak, my General Studies group (we call this Div here at Winchester College) began reading Don Taylor’s The Roses of Eyam, an extraordinary play about villagers in 1660s Derbyshire, who quarantined themselves when the Black Death arrived…