George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...
It’s a breakthrough in the field of random walks.
The mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles. In late January, Daniel Litt posed an innocent ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his career: Bohr: Algebra is like sheet music. The important ...
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