Michel Talagrand of France has credited a brush with blindness for leading to the work that resulted in his recognition by the math equivalent of the Nobel Prize. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang has ...

We were all fascinated, and perhaps intimidated, in school when we learned Euclid’s geometry and the way he was able to prove statements and declare facts that exceeded human experience. Euclid did ...

Random processes take place all around us. It rains one day but not the next; stocks and bonds gain and lose value; traffic jams coalesce and disappear. Because they’re governed by numerous factors ...