Browsing: Lens_numbers

Machine learning is teaching us the secret to teaching.

Critical reading gets even better when you use your computer.

Grigori Perelman became famous, despite his adamant opposition, for proving a conjecture from Henri Poincaré, pictured here. In November 2002, a Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman posted the first of three short preprints to the arXiv (an online repository for drafts of academic papers in math and science), offering a proof for the famous Poincare […]

Rags, riches, and fame in mathematics.

Announcing the Nautilus Nobel Prize Futures Market

We think that fame is deserved. We are wrong.

It’s an odd quirk of the human mind that we tend to think we’re less likely to be affected a particular threat—be it the flu, a car accident, or a flood—than anyone else. Like the fictional town of Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average, this is a patent impossibility: Everyone can’t be […]

Researchers’ rituals for assessing probability may mislead as much as they enlighten.

How numbers can tip the scales of justice.

Chance encounters in the life of Andrei Kolmogorov.