Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ...

Probability theory forms the mathematical backbone for quantifying uncertainty and random events, providing a rigorous language with which to describe both everyday phenomena and complex scientific ...

WHEN Denmark was overrun by the Germans various British subjects were caught, Mr. among them. He was interned in a camp under Danish control and spent part of his enforced leisure in coin-tossing ...

In 1929, a few years prior to his colleague Kolmogorov's Grundbegriffe, the leading Russian probabilist Khinchin published a paper in which he commented on the foundational ambitions of von Mises' ...

The Annals of Applied Probability publishes research papers of the highest quality reflecting the many facets of contemporary applied probability. Primary emphasis is placed on importance and ...

What makes a proof stronger than a guess? What does evidence look like in the realm of mathematical abstraction? Hear the mathematician Melanie Matchett Wood explain how probability helps to guide ...