Around noon one day last June, an elderly woman was mugged in an alley in San Pedro, Calif. Shortly afterward, a witness saw a blonde girl, her pony tail flying, run out of the alley, get into a ...

Going ape: According to laws of probability, the saying goes, if you put an infinite number of monkeys in front of an infinite number of typewriters, one of them will reproduce the complete works of ...

Monday, I wrote a little thing about Oakland's 20-game winning streak last season. A Topps card described the streak as "truly one in a million," but I thought their math was a bit simplistic and I ...

What the Mets are banking on, as much as anything, is this: Math. Specifically: Good math. Specifically: The laws of probability reversing course and carrying them to a full season of peace and ...

In general, a scientific law is the description of an observed phenomenon. It doesn't explain why the phenomenon exists or what causes it. The explanation for a phenomenon is called a scientific ...

The law of probability makes two points: first, anything man can think of can happen even if it seems impossible. Secondly, the law of probability treats with the likelihood of an event happening and ...

It was 11:30 a.m. on Friday, June 9, 1953, when I parked my car in New York City and pondered once again what I had set out to do. For the next seven or eight hours, until dusk or until my legs gave ...