What happened when a gambler asked for help from a mathematician? The formal study of Probability. Infinite Series is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV ...

The World Science Festival’s panel on Probability and Risk started out in an unusual manner: MIT’s Josh Tenenbaum strode onto a stage and flipped a coin five times, claiming he was psychically ...

Humans are not terribly good at accurately assessing probability and dealing with randomness. This may stem from these skills having little evolutionary value. We exhibit hindsight and confirmation ...

Lack of Randomness: Why Hackers Love It Mar 04, 2015 Random numbers, perhaps have different analogues among the humans and machines. Tossing a coin is assumed to be truly random for humans with the ...

It’s great to see the enthusiastic reader response to our first Insights puzzle. The puzzle has a deeply counterintuitive solution and raises philosophical questions about randomness and information.