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Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ...

JEFF: How likely is it that Putter will make this shot, Janine? JANINE: The probability? Well, he needs to get his shot past that Pineapple Windmill. JEFF: The windmill with 6 segments? JANINE: That’s ...

This lively journal is produced five times per year and includes contributions from mathematics practitioners. It reflects the best of current thinking and practice. In addition to articles covering ...

PROBABILITY theory is a quaint little piece of mathematics. It is about sets of non-negative numbers that are attached to actual and possible physical events, that sum to 1 and that obey certain rules ...

In one day, 433 people won the Philippine lottery jackpot. What were the chances? On October 1, 2022, something strange ...

Hillel Furstenberg, 84, and Gregory Margulis, 74, both retired professors, share the mathematics equivalent of a Nobel Prize. By Kenneth Chang Two mathematicians who showed how an underappreciated ...

In this episode probability mathematics and chess collide. In this episode probability mathematics and chess collide. What is the average number of steps it would take before a randomly moving knight ...