Mathematicians studied the flow of human crowds and developed a way to predict when pedestrian paths will transition from orderly to entangled. Their findings may help inform the design of public ...

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"This is a problem that many of the world's greatest mathematicians have worked on ... arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.17655 ...

Mathematicians studied the flow of human crowds ... The team plans to test their predictions on real-world crowds and pedestrian thoroughfares. “We would like to analyze footage and compare ...

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