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Sunetra Gupta

Duration:
28 minutes
First broadcast:
Tuesday 25 September 2012

Jim Al-Khalili meets Sunetra Gupta, a scientist and novelist. As a Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology she studies infectious diseases such as flu and malaria and explains how a mathematical equation can be as beautiful as a Keats poem.

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