{"id":160433,"date":"2023-03-16T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T19:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/the-hidden-mathematics-of-crowds-how-pedestrians-inadvertently-self-organize"},"modified":"2023-03-16T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T19:23:08","slug":"the-hidden-mathematics-of-crowds-how-pedestrians-inadvertently-self-organize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/the-hidden-mathematics-of-crowds-how-pedestrians-inadvertently-self-organize","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Mathematics of Crowds: How Pedestrians Inadvertently Self-Organize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HdvUtE3-q-o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mathematical research from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom has shed new light on the formation and behavior of crowds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever pondered how people, without having a discussion or even giving it a second thought, instinctively form lanes when walking through a crowded area?<\/p>\n<p>A new theory, developed by mathematicians at the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-bath\/>University of Bath<\/a> in the UK and led by Professor Tim Rogers, explains this phenomenon. This theory is able to predict when lanes will be straight but also when they will be curved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematical research from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom has shed new light on the formation and behavior of crowds. Have you ever pondered how people, without having a discussion or even giving it a second thought, instinctively form lanes when walking through a crowded area? A new theory, developed by mathematicians at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}