Math

Composer Edward Elgar still has cryptographers playing his tune.

Rags, riches, and fame in mathematics.

Researchers’ rituals for assessing probability may mislead as much as they enlighten.

How numbers can tip the scales of justice.

Chance encounters in the life of Andrei Kolmogorov.

Why it’s hard to recognize the unlikely.

When the biggest problem with traffic is nothing at all.

Those aggravating slowdowns aren’t one driver’s fault. They’re everybody’s fault.

Never mind tornadoes—companies now seek shelter from daily weather.

The reliability of some technologies depends on just the right amount of randomness.

When a hypothesis is neither true nor false.