God Plays Dice

This is the last post here at God Plays Dice. It happens to be the thousandth, but I didn't plan that. I'm moving to Wordpress, and ...

So I asked on Sunday the following question: pick two points on a unit sphere uniformly at random. What is the expected distance between th...

Here's a cute problem (from Robert M. Young, Excursions in Calculus , p. 244): "What is the average straight line distance between ...

You should watch Vi Hart's stop-motion animated story of Wind and Mr. Ug .

In class today, I said approximately this: So people decide whether to have children by flipping a coin, and if it comes up tails they have ...

You may have heard that it's 11/11/11. (Or, if you live in the UK, 11/11/11.) When I was growing up, I'd get confused and think tha...

The ten college majors with the lowest unemployment rates , from yahoo.com. I've heard about this from a friend who majored in astronomy...