Shuffling Cards and Stopping Times

Abstract

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid AldousDavid Aldous confesses to a conventional career, going from a Ph.D. and Research Fellowship at Cambridge University to the Statistics Department at Berkeley, where he is now Associate Professor. He does research in theoretical and applied probability theory, and for recreation he plays volleyball (well), bridge (badly) and watches Monty Python reruns.Persi DiaconisPersi Diaconis left High School at an early age to earn a living as a magician and gambler, only later to become interested in mathematics and earn a Ph.D. at Harvard. After a spell at Bell Labs, he is now Professor in the Statistics Department at Stanford. He was an early recipient of a MacArthur Foundation award, and his wide range of mathematical interests is partly reflected in his first book Group Theory in Statistics. He retains an interest in magic and the exposure of fraudulent psychics.

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