Benford's Law: Applications and Explanations by Annika Brockman '24

Benford’s Law: Applications and Explanations by Annika Brockman ’24, Wednesday May 8, 1:10pm – 1:50pm, North Science Building 015, Wachenheim, Statistics Colloquium

Abstract: Benford’s Law describes a natural phenomena in which the leading digits of a series of numbers are non-uniformly distributed. In collections of the leading digits of numbers from newspaper articles, stock prices, and city populations are examined, the number one appears over seven times as often as the number nine. In this upcoming talk, Annika Brockman brilliantly and charismatically explores the why and how of what some have called “the greatest unsolved mathematical mystery of our time.”