Probability underlies much of the modern world – an engineering professor explains how it actually works

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...
Newsweek

How Can We Predict a Nuclear War?

With Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin's rhetoric surrounding the possible use of nuclear weapons, the fear of a nuclear war has crept back into public ...

Bayes' Theorem: What It Is, Formula, and Examples

Bayes' theorem is a statistical formula used to calculate conditional probability. Learn how it works, how to calculate it ...
StamfordAdvocate

How do scientists calculate the probability that an asteroid could hit Earth?

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Toshi Hirabayashi, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) I was preparing ...
BBC

How to find probabilities from Venn diagrams

Venn diagrams are used to sort sets of data. The probability of an event not happening uses the complement of the region on the Venn diagram. Count the number of elements in each region. Redraw the ...