What happened when a gambler asked for help from a mathematician? The formal study of Probability. Infinite Series is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV ...

There’s a curious contradiction at the heart of today’s most capable AI models that purport to “reason”: They can solve routine math problems with accuracy, yet when faced with formulating deeper ...

In 1929, a few years prior to his colleague Kolmogorov's Grundbegriffe, the leading Russian probabilist Khinchin published a paper in which he commented on the foundational ambitions of von Mises' ...

Being able to use and conceptualize math is one of the fundamental skills that people use every day. Despite how concrete it seems, a lot of math we use for complex physics is actually uncertain and ...

Human cancers are thought to be sustained in their growth by a pathologic counterpart of normal adult stem cells: cancer stem cells. This concept was first developed in human myeloid leukemias and is ...