math

An experiment in controlling how much of Scrabble is luck.

What math can teach us about finding order in our chaotic lives.

Anybody you can name from ancient history is in your family tree.

High school teachers are bringing ice cream into the lab.

The father of information theory built a machine to game roulette, then abandoned it.

Science predicts only the predictable, ignoring most of our chaotic universe.

Near-miss math provides exact representations of almost-right answers.

Harvey Friedman is about to bring incompleteness and infinity out of quarantine.

The surprising mathematics of the extremely rare.

Nature makes chance, humans make luck.

Seek balance in all things—including subterfuge.