Problems and Paradoxes in Conditional Probability

It doesn’t take much for conditional probability to get complicated. But during my talk, we’re going to make it even more complicated than it needs to be. Next week, we will start by discussing a more traditional curve-ball in the probability playbook: the...

N Queens on an N x N chess board

Have you ever played chess? If you’ve played for any length of time, you most likely know of the dream that many chess players share: to amass an army of queens, the most powerful piece on the board. But with this puzzle, that dream is about to turn into a...

Envy-free Cake Division Protocols

Have you ever had to split something evenly between a group of people? Chances are that you have, and chances are that when you did, you didn’t use the laws of mathematics to ensure everyone’s complete and mathematically certain satisfaction. Because y’know, that’d be...