What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...

Think AI can crack your bracket? A Creighton math professor says think again — and shares tips to get 60 to 80% of picks right.

Maths exam can make the toppers fret and sweat. This we know is an established truth. It is almost again that time of the ...

Learn easy mental maths tricks for percentages, multiplying by 11 and the Rule of 72 to boost everyday confidence.

The addition rule for probabilities determines the chance of either mutually exclusive or overlapping events happening, using ...

As the number of underage students who gamble increases, some argue that schools should add gambling literacy to their curricula.

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...

Anthony Duclair made an immediate impact in the Islanders' home game against the Devils on Tuesday night, scoring a hat trick to help extend the Islanders' lead to 4-0. Entering Tuesday, there had ...

Driving my daughter to school, we were discussing a classic probability question: “What are the odds a 4‑digit license plate has at least one repeated digit?” Listing cases gets messy fast (first two ...

The Math and Knife event, held on Oct. 22 from 7 p.m to 8:30 p.m in the Memorial Union’s Washburn A/B room, brought about 40 students to experience a performance that went far beyond simple tricks and ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a writer and editor from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day she decided to combine the two. Most of the time, writing gaming guides is a blast for ...