Jordan Ellenberg
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Niven & Hugh Morris Lecture | From malaria to ChatGPT: the birth and strange life of the random walk
May 27, 2025
GEOG 100
Between 1905 and 1910 the idea of the random walk, now a major topic in applied math, was invented simultaneously and independently by multiple people in multiple countries for completely different purposes, from mosquito control to physics to finance to winning a theological argument (really!)... Read more