By Vidhi Dwivedi and Krisha Shah The number phi, often known as the golden ratio, is a mathematical concept that people have known about since the time of the ancient Greeks. It is an irrational number like pi and e, meaning that its terms go on forever after the decimal point without repeating. Over the centuries, aContinue reading “The Golden Ratio”
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Have tech giants become the big brother?
By Harsh Joshi Regulating or Breaking up Big Tech? What lies in the future?“Big Brother is watching you”The famous (or rather infamous) quote from ‘1984’ is not really a farfetched idea from reality as per the many netizens that believe that Big Tech along with governments worldwide is keeping an eye out for them.Amazon knowsContinue reading “Have tech giants become the big brother?”
Bayes’ Theorem
By Kanishk Nishar Bayes’ Theorem deals with conditional probability. Before we dive into the theorem, let us talk about conditional probability.Conditional ProbabilityThe formula for conditional probability is: Where, P (A) = Probability that event A will occur,P (B) = Probability that event B will occur, and P (A∩ B) = Probability that both event AContinue reading “Bayes’ Theorem”
Game theory 2.0
By Krisha Shah Nash equilibrium is a fundamental concept in the theory of games and the most widely used method of predicting the outcome of a strategic interaction in the social sciences. A game (in strategic or normal form) consists of the following three elements: a set of players, a set of actions (or pure-strategies)Continue reading “Game theory 2.0”
Life of Pi
By Ali Hyder Mulji Pi, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, the first number in history to have a symbol, the simplest ratio of the simplest imaginable shape in geometry, yet scientists and “numberphiles” have spent countless years after learning the secrets of this number. What is so special about this figure?Continue reading “Life of Pi”
Dividing by Zero
By Aditi Madan In the world of math, many strange results are possible when we try to change it’s rules, but the only rule that most of us have been warned about is “DON’T DIVIDE BY ZERO” Have you ever imagined how can a simple number and a basic operation can cause such problems, butContinue reading “Dividing by Zero”
Derivative of e^x
By Kanishk Nishar Euler’s Number (pronounced ‘oiler’) is a very famous mathematical constant that describes the rate of exponential growth in the universe. I’ve explained how the number is derived and one of its properties in this article. Compound interest To understand e, we must first understand compound interest. You must have seen the formulaContinue reading “Derivative of e^x”
Everything You Need to Know about Machine Learning
By Anisha Mata If you’ve recently used Twitter to get your news, asked Google Assistant to call you an Uber, or talked to any online customer service, chances are you’ve been in contact with Machine Learning in action, without even knowing about it. Since in recent years, machine learning has become such a big part ofContinue reading “Everything You Need to Know about Machine Learning”
How to Get Your Way with Statistics
By Ali Hyder Mulji “If you are a heavy French fry eater, your risk of dying doubles!” Haven’t we all heard sentences like this, one too many times and are always left dumbstruck by the claims they make? Sometimes they’re too awful to be believable but at most others, its simply a smart statistician slylyContinue reading “How to Get Your Way with Statistics”
You’ll Never Look at a Deck of Cards the Same Way Again
By Parth Mehta It all starts with a simple deck of playing cards. These 52 thin cardboards with colorful designs printed on their sides seem pretty much harmless enough. Yet as they say, the complexity of things begins from the simplest systems. So, A harmless question. In how many ways can they be arranged? For thisContinue reading “You’ll Never Look at a Deck of Cards the Same Way Again”
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