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 ...
Nature

Introduction to Mathematical Probability

PROF. USPENSKY'S treatise on mathematical probability is a very comprehensive one and includes every theoretical aspect of the subject, with several chapters on modern developments. Only those ...
Quanta Magazine

Perplexing the Web, One Probability Puzzle at a Time

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 ...
Nature

Mathematical Statistics

PARTS III. and IV. of the twelfth volume of “Biometrika” contain papers of interest to all classes of statistician. Those especially attracted by work on the general mathematical theory of probability ...