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 ...

After almost a decade of conflicts, the new year may provide a turning point in the debate over how to teach mathematics. Prospects that the Bush administration will put the topic in the spotlight, ...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE — Heads bowed, faces focused on the equations in front of them, hundreds of girls worked furiously on a series of math problems in an MIT lecture hall on Saturday morning. But tens of ...

Your math is a little off. Actually completely wrong. The number of passwords of length N from an alphabet of A characters is A to the power of N, (A^N) so the key ...

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I would venture an opinion that a majority of casino goers look upon gaming as more of a recreational activity than an art or a science. There is no arguing the fact that mathematical probability is ...