Published on December 19, 2024 at 10:10. / Modified on December 19, 2024 at 10:17.
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In the aula of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Neuchâtel, where the chatter of around a hundred students resonates, silence reigns as soon as Maxime Zuber begins a recall on the Markov channels. Throughout the mathematics teacher’s explanations, we understand how the use of matrices makes it possible to calculate the evolution of a population made up of non-smokers and smokers over a given period. “At the time, it always ended up being balanced at two-thirds non-smokers to one-third smokers,” he concludes. This is important to know if you have to plan spaces reserved for one or the other category, for example when the trains still had smoking carriages,” he illustrates.
In November, he was recognized with the Credit Suisse Best Teaching Award, which recognizes the best teaching at the institution. The former autonomist mayor of Moutier is all the more proud of this prize “because it comes from the students”, in a university where he has taught for more than thirty years, after having completed his studies and his doctorate there.
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