The Power of Mathematical Visualization Season 1 Episode 16 Visualizing Random Movement, Orderly Effect
- TV-PG
- October 21, 2016
- 31 min
Discover that Pascal's triangle encodes the behavior of random walks, which are randomly taken steps characteristic of the particles in diffusing gases and other random phenomena. Focus on the inevitability of returning to the starting point. Also consider how random walks are linked to the "gambler's ruin" theorem.