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From Plato to Markov chains, how probability revealed hidden patterns in random events

From Plato’s search for hidden forms to Bernoulli’s law of large numbers and Markov’s breakthrough on dependent events, this story traces how mathematicians discovered the patterns hidden inside ...

This Secret Pattern Predicts What’s Next in Your Market. Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It.

Here’s the story of when I first encountered it. It happened in 2024, as I interviewed Notion cofounder and CEO Ivan Zhao for this magazine. Related: 5 Strategies for Leaders to ...

Student serves up fresh solutions to the pancake problem

David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...