For Tuesday, 7 December
- NPR Talk of the Nation, 10/9/98: "Math in the Media." This is an audio file containing a radio broadcast. Remember that to listen on your personal machine, you will need the RealPlayer plug-in for your browser. (This software is already installed in our public labs.)
- Listen to Persi Diaconis on Card Shuffling (starting at about minute 28:00)
- The more mathematically inclined might look at "How Many Times Should You Shuffle A Deck Of Cards?" by Brad Mann. This expository paper was written for the Chance Project at Dartmouth College (with support from NSF and NECUSE). To read it you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader.