From the comfort of his desk in the UCLA mathematics department, Skip Garibaldi uses his analytical expertise to help find lottery scammers across the country. Garibaldi, the associate director of the ...

My print column this week examines the math of the lottery. A government-run gambling game may indeed be a tax on people who are bad at math, as mathematicians, T-shirts and bumper stickers suggest, ...

The Palm Beach Post, with the help of some top-notch mathematicians, used some pretty sophisticated math to uncover fraud within the Florida Lottery last year. So sophisticated, in fact, that it’s ...

The world of lotteries offers a unique and fascinating application of mathematical principles. While lotteries are often viewed as a form of entertainment or a chance to win big, they are deeply ...

It’s common knowledge these days that the odds of someone winning the lottery are pretty miniscule. An often-cited statistic is that you’re more likely to be struck by lightning and die than choose ...

A four-time Texas lottery winner’s timing is priceless. Joan Ginther, 63, has been dubbed “the luckiest woman on earth,” having scratched her way to four jackpots worth a total of $20.4 million.

We’ve all daydreamed about hitting the lottery jackpot, but Stefan Mandel didn’t just dream he made it happen, not once, but 14 times. This Romanian-Australian economist turned the lottery into a ...

Americans spend tens of billions of dollars on government-run lotteries each year. But as income inequality widens, low-earning households spend a disproportionate amount of money on lottery tickets, ...