Theoretical computer scientist Manuel Blum has guided generations of graduate students into fruitful careers in the field. Every academic field has its superstars. But a rare few achieve superstardom ...

Ever since it was released in the 1980s, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the millions of people who use it ...

In many dynamic economic settings, a decision maker finds it challenging to quantify the uncertainty or assess the potential for mistakes in models. We explore alternative ways of acknowledging these ...

Our July Insights column was inspired by the mathematics of the phenomenal 20th-century number theorist Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose romantic and tragic life story was the subject of the recent film The ...

Faster-than-light neutrinos? Boring… let’s see something really revolutionary. Edward Nelson, a math professor at Princeton, is writing a book called Elements in which he claims to prove the ...