The addition rule for probabilities determines the chance of either mutually exclusive or overlapping events happening, using ...

Data is the life-blood of physical AI. Collecting real-life data is expensive. Generative AI and diffusion to create ...

Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

As the number of underage students who gamble increases, some argue that schools should add gambling literacy to their curricula.

Decades of research in industrial-organizational psychology show that unstructured, brainteaser-style interviews have low predictive validity.

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...

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.

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

It’s a breakthrough in the field of random walks.

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

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

The most recent TIMSS assessment underscores the seriousness of our problem. Canadian Grade 4 students performed below both U.S. students and the international median at nearly every math benchmark ...