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Departments of Statistics and Mathematics
BILLINGSLEY LECTURES ON PROBABILITY
PERSI DIACONIS
Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics
Stanford University
On Coincidences
THURSDAY, May 2, 2013, at 4:00 PM
Breasted Hall, at the Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th Street
Reception following the lecture in Eckhart 209, 5734 S. University Avenue
ABSTRACT
Coincidences amaze us. They can affect where we live and with whom. I will review early
work of Jung, Freud, and Kammerer, and then introduce some skeptical tools. Sometimes,
a little bit of quantitative thinking shows that things are not so surprising after all.
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