In the current supershoe era, we hear a lot about which running shoes might make you a percent or two faster when you race.

Understanding numbers isn’t just for scientists or students. It’s a skill that helps you make smarter choices in your everyday life. Whether you’re calculating the odds of something happening, ...

Marginal utility helps set product pricing; high initial satisfaction decreases with more units. Some stores use bulk pricing when consumers value additional items less. Progressive taxes assume each ...

At the outset of his career — before he developed a model for high-stakes decision-making, swapped ideas with Nobel laureates, or lectured for NATO — Roman Krzysztofowicz used his love of math to ...

Some of you may know that I recently wrote a fairly short, simplified book on probability with the help of Professor Justin Conrad from the University of Georgia called Probability and Statistics The ...

Disney is hitting pause on its adaptation of “The Graveyard Book” in the wake of sexual assault allegations leveled against the book’s author Neil Gaiman. The film from director Marc Forster hasn’t ...

Disney has halted development on a forthcoming film adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s The Graveyard Book in the midst of accusations of sexual assault against the writer. The film, from director Marc ...

The mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles. In late January, Daniel Litt posed an innocent ...

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