A conjecture in geometric probability about the asymptotic normality of the r-content of the r-simplex, whose r + 1 vertices are independently uniformly distributed random points of which p are in the ...

As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of July 17, 2014, Thomas Royen, a little-known retired German statistician, suddenly lit upon the proof of a famous conjecture at the intersection of ...

Journal of Applied Probability and Advances in Applied Probability have for four decades provided a forum for original research and reviews in applied probability, mapping the development of ...

THE concept of probability has always comprised two ideas: that of frequency in an ensemble and that of reasonable expectation. Suppose it is said that in tossing an unbiased coin the probabilities of ...

Grigori Perelman electrified the mathematical world 3 years ago with his claim to have solved one of the most famous problems in mathematics (SN: 6/14/03, p. 378: If It Looks Like a Sphere…). The ...