City College of New York (BS) Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Known for
Freedman–Diaconis rule
Spouse
Susan Holmes
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematical statistics
Institutions
Harvard University Stanford University
Doctoral advisor
Dennis Arnold Hejhal Frederick Mosteller[1]
Doctoral students
Sourav Chatterjee
Eduardo Engel
Elizabeth Meckes
Igor Pak
Eric Rains
Jeff Rosenthal
Francis Su
Elizabeth Wilmer
Arif Zaman
Persi Warren Diaconis (/ˌdaɪəˈkoʊnɪs/; born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician.[2][3] He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University.[4][5]
He is particularly known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness and randomization, such as coin flipping and shuffling playing cards.
^Persi Diaconis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^Hoffman, J. (2011). "Q&A: The mathemagician". Nature. 478 (7370): 457. Bibcode:2011Natur.478..457H. doi:10.1038/478457a.
^Diaconis, Persi; Graham, Ron (2011), Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas that Animate Great Magic Tricks, Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-15164-4
^"Stanford University - Persi Diaconis". Retrieved 2011-10-27.
^"It's no coincidence: Stanford University mathematician and statistician Persi Diaconis will serve as a Patten Lecturer at Indiana University Bloomington". Archived from the original on 2011-11-10. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
Persi Warren Diaconis (/ˌdaɪəˈkoʊnɪs/; born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. He is the...
Diaconis can refer to: Paulus Diaconis (Paul the Deacon), 8th century monk and scholar PersiDiaconis, American magician turned mathematician Freedman–Diaconis...
mathematician/magicians, including Arthur T. Benjamin, PersiDiaconis, and Colm Mulcahy. Diaconis has suggested that the reason so many mathematicians are...
some of Diaconis' results, concluding that six shuffles are enough. The difference hinges on how each measured the randomness of the deck. Diaconis used...
have application in performance magic. Bottom dealing experts include PersiDiaconis, Darwin Ortiz, Steve Forte, Daniel Madison, Jason England and Richard...
to the needs and peculiarities of Bayesian modeling. In the words of PersiDiaconis: Exploratory data analysis seeks to reveal structure, or simple descriptions...
Persi may refer to: PersiDiaconis (born 1945), American mathematician and former professional magician Persi Iveland, a member of the Norwegian rock...
statistician PersiDiaconis, and polymath Raymond Smullyan. Gardner considered fellow magician James Randi his closest friend. Diaconis and Smullyan like...
to receive his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where his advisor was PersiDiaconis. His research area is combinatorics, and he is particularly known for...
was able to be free because he was also one of the most disciplined." PersiDiaconis, a professor of mathematics at Stanford, has said "You were happy being...
tmix{\displaystyle t_{\mathrm {mix} }}. This is the sense in which Dave Bayer and PersiDiaconis (1992) proved that the number of riffle shuffles needed to mix an ordinary...
The law of truly large numbers (a statistical adage), attributed to PersiDiaconis and Frederick Mosteller, states that with a large enough number of independent...
Stanford University in 2005, where he worked under the supervision of PersiDiaconis. Chatterjee joined University of California, Berkeley, as a visiting...
Theory and Its Applications Volume I. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 344–347. PersiDiaconis & Stewart N. Ethier (2020–2021). "Gambler's Ruin and the ICM". arXiv:2011...
Brian Butterworth John Conway Ed Copeland Tom Crawford Zsuzsanna Dancso PersiDiaconis Marcus Du Sautoy Rob Eastaway Laurence Eaves David Eisenbud Edward Frenkel...
remains an open problem. In nonparametric statistics, a 1977 paper by PersiDiaconis and Graham studied the statistical properties of Spearman's footrule...
magician PersiDiaconis. During the interview Diaconis mentioned that Martin Gardner had paid him to watch Ted Serios perform, during which Diaconis claimed...
flipping has been studied by the mathematician and former magician PersiDiaconis and his collaborators. They have demonstrated that a mechanical coin...
Vladimir Voevodsky of Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 2013/14: PersiDiaconis of Stanford University 2012: David Nadler of Northwestern University...
Angeles, California. There, he mentored magicians including Ricky Jay, PersiDiaconis, Doug Henning, Larry Jennings, Bruce Cervon, Michael Ammar, John Carney...
the shuffling process. A widely reported, but unpublished, study by PersiDiaconis and Susan Holmes in 2000 resulted in the redesign of many shuffling...
Markov chain.[clarification needed] His dissertation was supervised by PersiDiaconis. Arif Zaman (1984), "An Approximation Theorem for Finite Markov Exchangeability"...
Jørgensen 1981 – John C. Gittins 1982 – Rouben V. Ambartzumian and PersiDiaconis 1983 – Ed Perkins 1984 – Martin Thomas Barlow and Chris Rogers 1985...
uses random walks to make suggestions of whom to follow Dave Bayer and PersiDiaconis have proven that 7 riffle shuffles are sufficient to mix a deck of cards...
and ideas. These range from complex mathematics like those used by PersiDiaconis, the use of psychological techniques like those taught by Banachek,...
faro earlier, as discovered mostly by the mathematician and magician PersiDiaconis. The faro shuffle is a controlled shuffle that does not fully randomize...
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