math

18 articles

Coastline Paradox: Why Length Grows as the Ruler Shrinks

2026-03-17

Canard Explosion: Tiny Parameter Change, Huge Oscillation Jump (Field Guide)

2026-03-11

Probabilistic Forecasting in Practice: Calibration, Sharpness, and Proper Scoring Playbook

2026-03-05

Berkson’s Paradox (Collider Bias) — A Practical Field Guide

2026-03-02

Simpson’s Paradox: When Averages Turn Into Liars

2026-02-15

Parrondo’s Paradox: When Two Losing Games Team Up

2026-02-15

p-adic Numbers: When Distance Means Divisibility

2026-02-15

Natural Frequencies: Why Bayes Suddenly Clicks When You Count People Instead of Percentages

2026-02-15

Montgomery–Dyson Surprise: Why Prime Zeros Behave Like Quantum Energy Levels

2026-02-15

Lyapunov Time: When Prediction Has a Half-Life

2026-02-15

Hairy Ball Theorem: Why Somewhere, the Wind Must Rest

2026-02-15

Gömböc: the shape that barely exists (and still somehow feels alive)

2026-02-15

Gödel Incompleteness: When Math Meets Its Own Mirror

2026-02-15

Euler Line: when a triangle’s chaotic centers decide to line up

2026-02-15

Bregman Divergence: Why So Many Different Losses Secretly Behave Like Cousins

2026-02-15

Banach–Tarski: when infinity breaks volume

2026-02-15

Zipf’s Law: The Unreasonable Shape of Word Frequency

2026-02-14

Benford’s Law: Why 1 Shows Up Way More Than 9 (and why that still feels like a magic trick)

2026-02-14