Typical examples of probability arguments are adduced from the Talmud to show that the ancient Rabbis formulated rules for adding, multiplying and comparing probabilities as well as criteria for ...

Actuarial science is a discipline that assesses financial risks in the insurance and finance fields, using mathematical and statistical methods.

This is a graduate-level course focused on techniques and models in modern discrete probability. Topics include: the first and second moment methods, martingales, concentration inequalities, branching ...

As two forces engage in combat without replacements, the numbers of survivors on the two forces will diminish. The force first reaching zero loses; the other wins. Let P(x,y) be the probability that ...