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 ...

We all get excited when we meet someone who shares the same birthday as us. It feels like you just met a kindred spirit. It’s pretty uncommon to randomly run across someone who was born on the same ...

(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 ...