I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 YR4. It said the probability it could hit Earth was unusually high. As ...

We are pleased to announce a new method of computing the bankruptcy risk of companies, the "Probability of Financial Distress." John Campbell, Jens Hilscher and Jan Szilagyi developed a logit ...

A rt and luxury auction house Christie’s has withdrawn the world’s first calculating machine, designed by French mathematician Blaise Pascal in 1642. The decision was announced on Wednesday, after a ...

I HAVE recently 1 been investigating certain probability distributions arising from points possessing one of k colours or characters arranged on a line or in the form of a rectangular lattice. In the ...

Earthquakes are seemingly random events that are hard to predict with any reasonable accuracy. And yet geologists make very specific long term forecasts that can help to dramatically reduce the number ...

We provide numerical solutions based on the path integral representation of stochastic processes for non-gradient drift Langevin forces in the presence of noise, to follow the temporal evolution of ...

Astronaut turns each round into a test of reaction: the rocket gains a multiplier, and the player decides when to lock in their winnings.

(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 ...