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Interview Details
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Interview with Persi Diaconis | CHANCE
Publish Date
February 22, 2012
Interviewees
Persi Diaconis
Interviewers
Christian Robert
,
Sam Behseta
Publisher
CHANCE
Topics
Coin tricks and their relation to statistics
Connection between statistics and magic
Fair coin toss analysis
Importance sampling for contingency tables
Magic tricks and their intersection with mathematics
Projects on coincidences and genetic applications
Public speaking and academic publishing
Teaching statistics and magic tricks
Writing a general audience book on mathematics and magic
People Mentioned
David Freedman
Deborah Mayo
Fred Mosteller
John Tukey
Larry Lesser
Mark E. Glickman
Martin Gardner
Neil Gaiman
Ralph B. D’Agostino Sr.
Ron Graham
Sergio Bacalado
Silke Rolles
Works Mentioned
American Gods
Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks
Places Mentioned
Hollywood
Princeton University
Stanford
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