Mathematics

📊 Slide Deck: How Randomness Creates Reality 📄 View Full Presentation | 📥 Download PDF (19.7 MB) How Does Randomness Create Reality? Flip a coin. You can’t predict the outcome — it’s random. But flip it 1,000 times. You’ll get roughly 500 heads. That’s a guarantee. How is it that individually unpredictable events become collectively predictable? This is the question French mathematician Michel Talagrand (b. 1952, Béziers) devoted his life to answering. The 2024 Abel…