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Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture. Jon Keating: From one extreme to another: the statistics of extreme events
Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture. Jon Keating: From one extreme to another: the statistics of extreme events
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59 minutes
Released:
Apr 28, 2021
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Podcast episode
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Oxford University's Sedleian Professorship of Natural Philosophy is 400 years old in 2021. The title implies a wide range of study. Current holder Jon Keating does just that in this Public Lecture via the Olympics, machine learning & the Riemann zeta-function, the mathematical object that encodes the mysterious distribution of the prime numbers.
Released:
Apr 28, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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