MR. UDNY YULE'S “Introduction” was the first book on statistics that came into my hands. This was about 1916. I liked it then and learned a lot from it. I like it even more now in its eleventh edition ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...