The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. To understand the universe, scientists look to its outliers. “You always want to know about the extreme cases—the special cases that lie ...

To understand the universe, scientists look to its outliers. “You always want to know about the extreme cases — the special cases that lie at the edge,” said Carsten Gundlach, a mathematical physicist ...

in this video we'll look at an application of the probabilistic method to extremal set theory extremal set theory is an area of combinatorics concerned with questions such as what is the largest ...

Stochastic processes provide a rigorous framework for modelling systems that evolve over time under uncertainty, while extremal theory offers the tools for understanding the behaviour of rare, ...

Extremal Film Partners is pitching a new film-financing product that, per the company’s release, “limits exposure for investors and distributors alike, and that works with both single movies and film ...

“Physicists like to probe the extreme,” said Garrett Goon, a physicist at Carnegie Mellon University. “The fact that you can’t go further, that something is changing, something is blocking you — ...

Extremal Film Partners founders Aleck Grishkevich and Arthur de Vany have joined forces with ex-William Morris agent and producer Gary Pearl and entertainment attorney Schuyler Moore to set up a new ...