The Weekend Edition Saturday Math Guy, Stanford professor Keith Devlin, has a problem. In fact, he has more than one... which he's happy to share with Scott Simon. What is the probability that in a ...

In a recent paper – Birth, Death, Coincidences and Occupancies: Solutions and Applications of Generalized Birthday and Occupancy Problems – Miami University professor of Electrical and Computer ...

Are you smarter than a really smart Singapore high school student? See if you can figure out Cheryl’s birthday, the Singapore logic problem that’s got the Internet twisted into knots. Some are even ...

It’s been a tough year for parents trying to keep up with their kids in math. Last March, a North Carolina father tried to help his son with a word problem and ended up writing a note to the teacher ...

(via SciShow) There's a rather famous problem in math of probability called the Birthday Paradox. Let's get into how it works, and how creative uses of this hypothetical problem have real-world ...