MadMath

So I've come up with this question that's been bothering me for weeks,and I've been searching and asking everyone and everywhere...

Here's a quick thought experiment to develop intuition about the cardinality of rational versus irrational decimal numbers. We know th...

Cryptography researcher Victor Shoup recently gave a talk at the Simons Institute at Berkeley. Richard Lipton quotes him in one of his inter...

Three years ago I wrote a review of "Udacity Statistics 101" that went semi-viral, finding the MOOC course to be slapdash, unplan...

A new PLoS ONE study looks at the effect of mandatory pre-registration of medical study methods and outcome measures, starting in 2000. Majo...

Last week, Ars Technica (and I'm sure other news sites) posted an article on a large-scale survey of health outcomes in Britain, under t...

I had an interesting natural experiment this past spring semester: I was teaching two remedial algebra courses, one in the afternoon, and on...