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 ...
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 ...
IEEE

On linearization of the product of two continuous variables

Abstract: Linearization of nonlinear functions is a common strategy that researchers use in many practical optimization problems due to existence of more powerful linear programming algorithms. In ...