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Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture. Jon Keating: From one extreme to another: the statistics of extreme events

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The Secrets of Mathematics
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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.

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The Secrets of Mathematics
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Jon Keating
Keywords
Riemann zeta-function
prime numbers
statistics
Department: Mathematical Institute
Date Added: 28/04/2021
Duration: 00:59:02

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