Your guides to the weird side of the web explain the Monty Hall problem and the math of probability.

From Monopoly to Backgammon to Yahtzee, our first experiences with board games almost always feature sets of six-sided dice. They’re a great way to create some randomness and chaos in a game, but ...

Research of the probability and statistics group includes particle systems, theoretical statistics, non-conventional random walks, random matrix theory, and random polynomials. Research interests also ...

Are you smarter than a third grader in Vietnam? Woman image via www.shutterstock.com It’s been quite a year for mathematics problems on the internet. In the last few months, three questions have been ...

Hillel Furstenberg, 84, and Gregory Margulis, 74, both retired professors, share the mathematics equivalent of a Nobel Prize. By Kenneth Chang Two mathematicians who showed how an underappreciated ...