THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Department of Statistics

Presents

THE R. R. BAHADUR
MEMORIAL LECTURE  2000


Persi Diaconis

The Professor of Statistics and Mathematics
 Stanford University
and
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 4:30 PM
ORIENTAL INSTITUTE, BREASTED HALL
1155 East 58th Street
 

"On Coincidences"


 Amazing coincidences seem to affect our day to day lives.  The talk will review work of Jung and Freud.  Sometimes a bit of quantitative thinking can show things are not so surprising after all.



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UPDATED: MAY 17, 2000