Scientific American

This mathematician proved a brilliant theorem to justify his social awkwardness

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

German parade floats mocking Trump are real. Here's why the caricatures were displayed

While the date of the parades lined up with Presidents Day in the U.S., several German cities actually held annual Rose ...

Probability underlies much of the modern world – an engineering professor explains how it actually works

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