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David Harper is the CEO and founder of Bionic Turtle. He is also a published author with a popular YouTube channel on expert finance topics. Probability distributions help investors model uncertainty ...

In the fall of 1915, the foundations of physics began to crack. Einstein’s new theory of gravity seemed to imply that it should be possible to create and destroy energy, a result that threatened to ...

in this video we'll look at an application of the probabilistic method to extremal set theory extremal set theory is an area of combinatorics concerned with questions such as what is the largest ...

Abstract: This paper is about Jacobi’s triple product identity and Euler’s pentagonal number theorem. To be specific, it gives the proofs of Jacobi’s triple product identity via Gaussian polynomials ...

On June 23, 1993, the mathematician Andrew Wiles gave the last of three lectures detailing his solution to Fermat’s last theorem, a problem that had remained unsolved for three and a half centuries.

The purpose of this repository is to digitise some mathematical definitions, theorem statements and theorem proofs. Digitisation, or formalisation, is a process where the source material, typically a ...