God Plays Dice

How many solutions does a typical quadratic equation have? Discuss. (I'm deliberately leaving the problem vague, because it's more ...

A comment at this post from the Secret Blogging Seminar , signed "estraven", said that since the Fields Medal is awarded every fou...

From the geomblog, in 2004: a meta-proof of P=/!=NP . With very slight modifications this could be a meta-proof of the Riemann hypothesis,...

Is massively collaborative mathematics possible? , asks Tim Gowers.

On reddit : a link to the old chestnut that high-dimensional spheres are weird . If you consider the volume of the unit ball in R n as a ...

Does anybody know what Barack Obama's Erdos number is? (In particular, is it even defined?) I learned a few days ago that if the links ...

I have two counting sequences that I know to be the same. That is, I have objects of type A and of type B, which each have a size, and I kn...