The law of large numbers describes how the results of an experiment will get closer to the expected value if a person repeats it a significant number of times and calculates an average. It bears some ...

On May 12, 2022, President Joe Biden marked the grim milestone of 1 million confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. For most people, visualizing what a million of anything looks like is an impossible ...

When you move beyond trillions, there are some extremely mind-bending numbers, says Richard Fisher. Some of them are too large to fit in the mind – or even within the known Universe. What's the ...

Jakob Bernoulli, head of a dynasty of brilliant scholars, was one of the world's leading mathematicians. His great work, Ars Conjectandi, published in 1713, included a profound result that he ...

Sharon Hewitt Rawlette has written an excellent compendium of coincidence stories with explanations and uses, The Source and Significance of Coincidences. In this guest editorial, she takes apart the ...

Seven minutes is all it took for a cyber attack to cripple thousands of companies in 2017. That’s according to a new Symantec marketing campaign which references the NotPetya malware attack that ...