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Persi Diaconis, Statistics and Mathematics Departments, "The Search for Randomness"

ABSTRACT:

I will take a careful look at some of our most primitive examples of random

phenemena: tossing a coin, rolling a roulette ball, shuffling cards. In

each case, while randomness is possible, usually we are lazy and

exploitable structures remain.