It’s a breakthrough in the field of random walks.
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his career: Bohr: Algebra is like sheet music. The important ...
In the real world, probability is a tough thing to characterize. If I roll a die, what does it mean to say that it has a one-sixth chance of coming up 5? We say that the outcome is random because we ...
George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...
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