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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7 3 4 S o u t h U n i v e r s i t y A v e
n u e ; C h i c a g o , I l l i n o i s 6
0 6 3 7 ; V o i c e : 7 7 3 . 7 0 2 . 8 3 3 3 ;
F a x : 7 7 3 . 7 0 2 . 9 8 1 0
UPDATED: MAY 17, 2000