Persi Diaconis is professor of mathematics and statistics at Stanford University, and a former professional magician.
Ron Graham (1935–2020) was professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of California, San Diego, and a former professional juggler.
6 Ebook di Persi Diaconis
Persi Diaconis & Ron Graham: Magical Mathematics
The mathematics behind some of the world’s most amazing card tricks Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of fun-to-perform card tricks—and the profound mathematical ideas behind them—that will ast …
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€21.99
Martin Gardner: Undiluted Hocus-Pocus
The autobiography of the beloved writer who inspired a generation to study math and science Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and publis …
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€21.99
Persi Diaconis & Brian Skyrms: Ten Great Ideas about Chance
A fascinating account of the breakthrough ideas that transformed probability and statistics In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from …
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€18.99
David Aldous & Persi Diaconis: Discrete Probability and Algorithms
Discrete probability theory and the theory of algorithms have become close partners over the last ten years, though the roots of this partnership go back much longer. The papers in this volume …
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€112.11
Persi Diaconis & David Elworthy: Ecole d’Ete de Probabilites de Saint-Flour XV-XVII, 1985-87
This volume contains detailed, worked-out notes of six main courses given at the Saint-Flour Summer Schools from 1985 to …
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€56.18
Persi Diaconis: Mathematics of Shuffling Cards
This book gives a lively development of the mathematics needed to answer the question, "How many times should a deck of cards be shuffled to mix it up?" The shuffles studied are the usual …
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€117.77
