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Persi Diaconis

Mathematician and amateur magician Persi Diaconis is Mary V. Sunseri professor of statistics and professor of mathematics at Stanford University. He is particularly known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness and randomization, such as shuffling playing cards.

See http://www.math.yorku.ca/Who/Faculty/agibbs/Persi_Diaconis .

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