Tim Harford's Inaugural Vicky Neale Public Lecture is now available to dip in to.
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture - 5pm, Wednesday 26 June 2024
Between 1905 and 1910 the idea of the random walk was invented simultaneously and independently by people in multiple countries for completely different purposes – in the UK, with Ronald Ross and the problem of mosquito control, but elsewhere in domains from physics to finance to winning a theological argument (really!).