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 ...

Probability is one of those things we all get wrong… deeply wrong. The good news is we’re not the only ones, says John Haigh, a mathematician at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, and author of ...

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 ...

"Yes or no: was there once life on Mars?" I can't say. "What about intelligent life?"' That seems most unlikely, but again, I can't really say. The simple yes-or-no framework has no place for shadings ...

Measurement shows that almost one-half of all market days are down days and slightly more are up days, but close enough to think of it as 50/50. Just as the probability of getting a long string of ...

What Is A Probability Density Function? A probability density function, also known as a bell curve, is a fundamental statistics concept, that describes the likelihood of a continuous random variable ...

David F Hendry receives funding from the Open Society Foundations and the Oxford Martin School. Grayham Mizon has received funding from Economic and Social Research Council. Unpredictability is ...

The host invites you to pick a door, any door. Let’s say you pick door one. The host throws open one of the doors you did not select, revealing a goat. Then the host gives you the option of switching ...

University of Glasgow provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Some of my earliest football memories come from the 1994 World Cup, when my dad helped four-year-old me complete the ...