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Applying Modern Mathematics

Professor Raymond Flood · Gresham College

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About

In 1972 the meteorologist, Edward Lorenz, delivered a lecture with the title Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set off a Tornado in Texas? In this he showed that dynamical systems can exhibit chaotic, seemingly random, behaviour. Many scientists think that this ranks as one of the main scientific advances of the twentieth century together with relativity and quantum theory. I will also talk about how the butterfly effect links chaos and the beautiful geometric objects, fractals.

Lectures

  1. Butterflies, Chaos and Fractals 2013-09-17 · YouTube
  2. Public Key Cryptography: Secrecy in Public 2013-10-22 · YouTube
  3. Symmetries and Groups 2013-11-19 · YouTube
  4. Surfaces and Topology 2014-01-21 · YouTube
  5. Probability and its Limits 2014-02-18 · YouTube
  6. Modelling the Spread of Infectious Diseases 2014-03-18 · YouTube

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Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Raymond Flood
Year
2013
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Biology, Computer science, Society and politics, History
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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