William M. Briggs

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. So please don’t feel like you must. Yet, I…

Peter Wood at the National Association of Scholars asked me to review Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty by Adam Kucharski. So I did. (His will is stronger than…

The black woman justice on the Supreme Court, who was appointed explicitly because she is a black woman, the search for a black woman for the then-vacant seat being announced…

My first thought when hearing the President announcing on 28 February yet another war in the Land of Endless War was "This is bad." Nothing that has happened since has…

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. So please don’t feel like you must. Yet, I…

Poor John Wayne Gacy. Reports are that the infamous mass murderer was looking up from his perch in Hell, musing about the more than thirty people he raped, tortured, then…

A quotation: And Jesus passing by, saw a man, who was blind from his birth: And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man, or his parents, that…

There is no Class this week, due to events. Here are the first 100 numbers in a series I constructed: 0.3987654 ,0.9560464 ,0.1675681 ,0.5562341 ,0.9843035 ,0.06160958 ,0.2305416 ,0.7073786 ,0.8254209 ,0.5746259…