George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...

It’s a breakthrough in the field of random walks.

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

Provided content. One ball on a Plinko board is unpredictable. Drop a thousand and they form a near-perfect bell curve—one of math’s most powerful ideas for 150+ years.