Mathematician:Persi Warren Diaconis
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Mathematician
American mathematician and former professional magician of Greek descent, best known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness and randomization, such as coin flipping and shuffling playing cards.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: January 31, 1945 in New York City, New York
Theorems and Definitions
Publications
- 1991: Closed Form Summation for Classical Distributions: Variations on a Theme of De Moivre (Stat. Sci. Vol. 6: pp. 284 – 302) (with Sandy Zabell) www.jstor.org/stable/2245429
- 1992: Trailing the Dovetail Shuffle to its Lair (Ann. Appl. Probab. Vol. 2: pp. 294 – 313) (with Dave Bayer) www.jstor.org/stable/2959752