We live in a world where a lot of things seem to happen by pure chance, from winning the Lotto to losing your car keys. But the truth is, the likelihood of many everyday things happening is heavily ...
The paper gives some personal recollections of the development of mathematical probability theory and its applications to statistical inference during the twenty years between the two world wars, ...
1 The Arts and Humanities (AH) and Social Sciences (SS) perspectives are subsets of the Breadth of Knowledge (BOK) requirements in the Core Curriculum. No more than two BOK courses can be taken with ...
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 ...
In order to improve the monitoring and management ability of marine rainfall in different duration, it is necessary to predict the ocean rainfall flow in different duration, and a combined forecasting ...
The spinning wheel game 'EO' became popular after statutes banned gambling with devices featuring 'numbers or figures.' Heritage Art/Getty Images The first commercial gambling operations emerged, ...
Women tend to be less fertile as they get older, but how much, exactly? Math nerd Richie Cotton at 4dpiecharts.com decided to figure it out with a chart. Cotton, who is trying to have a baby with his ...