Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said , "Probability is the most important concept ...

Provided content. One ball on a Plinko board is unpredictable. Drop a thousand and they form a near-perfect bell curve—one of math’s most powerful ideas for 150+ years.

This workshop is part of the Research Semester Programme 'PhaseCAP: Phase Transitions in Combinatorics, Algorithms and Probability'.

George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...

Mathematicians from the California Institute of Technology have solved an old problem related to a mathematical process called a random walk.

Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have flooded college sports with hundreds of millions of dollars — but universities and team general managers have been operating with little formal oversight, ...

New research suggests that the distinctive cognitive traits associated with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD ...

By explicitly modeling each step of a problem and gradually fading away supports, teachers can give students a clear path to mastering new content.

One would imagine that an AI capable of solving the hardest Olympiad problems would naturally produce novel scientific ...

It’s not about bad execution, but it boils down to thinking alignment. This happens when we use small tools for big problems, big tools for small problems, then we wonder why everyone is tired and ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...