Mathematicians solve decades-old mystery about the hidden order in high-dimensional randomness

Three mathematicians have laid out proof that solves a long-standing problem in mathematics. Even the mathematician—an Abel ...
Wired

A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof—And Nobody Notices

As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of July 17, 2014, Thomas Royen, a little-known retired German statistician, suddenly lit upon the proof of a famous conjecture at the intersection of ...
Quanta Magazine

A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost

As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of July 17, 2014, Thomas Royen, a little-known retired German statistician, suddenly lit upon the proof of a famous conjecture at the intersection of ...
Times of Malta

The origins of probability

Many problems of geometric probability were solved using this extension. The mathematical theory of probability as we know it today was developed by Andrey Kolmogorov. In 1933, Kolmogorov issued his ...