Graphs at Work. At school. And in other places, too.
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My better half teaches further mathematics for the International Baccalaureate (IB) program at a nearby school. I had a previous encounter with their Math club, on the topic of “Math at work”. Back then, work was focused on the roll-out of Scrum at scale, so I touched on Fibonacci numbers (used for effort estimation) and scratched the surface of queuing theory, M/M/1 queues in particular, to model service time in a work queue.Fast forward a month ago, the further mathematics class completed a healthy introduction to #graph Theory, including Dijkstra’s algorithm and the traveling salesman problem. Students remembered the “Math at work” session and asked for a sequel on “Graphs at work”. Based on conversations at home, I fully expected wickedly smart kids to wander in that class, so this was (...)