probability
How long do you have to wait for more than one thing to happen?
They are incredibly useful, but what exactly are they?
How long do you have to wait for something to happen?
Markov chains are exceptionally useful tools for calculating probabilities, and they might increase your chance of getting to the beach!
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Take a quick trip to the foundations of probability theory.
Randomness is surprisingly hard to define. Fortunately the mathematical language we use to describe it is beautifully well defined.
The second guiding principle in probability theory is more subtle – universality.
Symmetry is one of the two guiding principles in understanding probabilities – if different outcomes are equivalent they should have the same probability.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the differences between us. Understanding these inequalities is crucial for this and future pandemics.
Now it's the turn of mathematicians to help to improve the communities of the future.
There have been accusations that the modelling projecting the course of the pandemic was too pessimistic. Are they justified?
We all know what turbulence is, but nobody understands it.
Find out about the beautifully intuitive concept that lies at the heart of calculus.