Hilldale Lecture Series: Physical Sciences Division
From Magic to Mathematics and Back
Event Details
Date
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Time
4 p.m.
Location
B102 Van Vleck Hall
Description
Persi Diaconis, Stanford University. will illustrate with magic tricks that fool magicians how these tricks depend on hidden mathematics and demonstrate how the math behind the tricks has applications to secret codes, decoding DNA, robot vision and much else.
Cost
Free
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