With friends, he took a huge risk and purchased large blocks of lottery tickets with the combinations his formula has deemed to be most likely - and won first prize. The jackpot sum was 78,783 Rom ...

In 1992, Stefan Mandel pulled off every lottery player's dream ... reading math paper after math paper after math paper, and he comes up with a formula for buying blocks of tickets that he ...

For most players, the lottery is a statistical disaster. Every time another massive jackpot hits the news, math professors compete to construct the most alarming metaphor to illustrate how ...