MathOverflow
Kevin P. Costello
  • Member for 12 years, 1 month
  • Last seen more than a week ago
  • Riverside, CA
Profile Activity
Stats
5,471
reputation
0
reached
0
answers
0
questions
Communities
View all
About

Currently an Associate Professor of Teaching at UC-Riverside. Interested in Combinatorics, Probability, and especially in their intersection.

Badges
View all badges
This user doesn’t have any gold badges yet.
12
silver badges
3
bronze badges
Posts

This user hasn’t posted yet.

Top network posts
View all network posts
106
If you break a stick at two points chosen uniformly, the probability the three resulting sticks form a triangle is 1/4. Is there a nice proof of this?
64
Tweetable Mathematics
32
What's a nice argument that shows the volume of the unit ball in $\mathbb R^n$ approaches 0?
31
Why is the Derangement Probability so Close to $\frac{1}{e}$?
23
List of interesting integrals for early calculus students

Your privacy

By clicking “Accept all cookies”, you agree Stack Exchange can store cookies on your device and disclose information in accordance with our Cookie Policy.