Algorithmic randomness and computability theory inhabit a crossroads between mathematics and computer science, providing a rigorous framework for understanding randomness in infinite sequences and ...

Early in July, math professor emeritus Jim Bradley was awarded a $1,693,381 grant from the John Templeton Foundation to explore how randomness in the universe interacts with divine providence. Bradley ...

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has achieved a milestone in quantum technologies, demonstrating for the first time the control of quantum randomness. The team of ...

When flipping a coin, the probability of getting heads and the probability of getting tails are theoretically equal to 1/2. Here, when assuming a 'biased coin' where the probability of getting heads ...

Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace is, of course, as much a meditation upon history and human agency as it is a novel that explores the lives of several interconnected aristocratic Russian families against ...

A new study conducted by the Institute for Biology Education has concluded that the way in which supporting knowledge of key evolutionary findings is taught in biology lessons influences the entire ...