An intersection of Physics/Math/Stats and Literature:
Physicists Costas Efthimiou and Sohang Gandhi published a paper "Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality" that attempts to prove vampires could not exist.
Efthimiou and Gandhi conduct a thought experiment: Assume that the first vampire appeared on January 1, 1600. At that time, according to data available at the U.S. Census website, the global population was 536,870,911. Efthimiou and Gandhi calculate that, once the Nosferatu feeding frenzy began, the entire human race would have been wiped out by June 1602.
However, mathematician, Dino Sejdinovic published a rebuttal to their argument in the November 2008 Math Horizons called "Mathematics of the Human-Vampire Conflict."
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