Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

David Harper is the CEO and founder of Bionic Turtle. He is also a published author with a popular YouTube channel on expert finance topics. Probability distributions help investors model uncertainty ...

in this video we'll look at an application of the probabilistic method to extremal set theory extremal set theory is an area of combinatorics concerned with questions such as what is the largest ...

The Binomial test, sometimes referred to as the Binomial exact test, is a test used in sampling statistics to assess whether a proportion of a binary variable is equal to some hypothesized value. In ...

You might be surprised to learn that you can’t comb the hairs flat on a coconut without creating a cowlick. Perhaps even more surprising, this silly claim with an even sillier name, the “hairy ball ...

On June 23, 1993, the mathematician Andrew Wiles gave the last of three lectures detailing his solution to Fermat’s last theorem, a problem that had remained unsolved for three and a half centuries.

A mousy math prodigy battles sexism, romantic disillusion and entrenched academic prejudice as she solves for x in a movie that cannot solve for why. Marguerite Hoffman (Ella Rumpf, “Raw”) is a ...

Abstract: This paper is about Jacobi’s triple product identity and Euler’s pentagonal number theorem. To be specific, it gives the proofs of Jacobi’s triple product identity via Gaussian polynomials ...