The Mathematics of Shuffling Cards

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4-1-2019

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Shuffling a deck of cards seems easy enough. However, analyzing this process from a more theoretical point of view we will discover that in a qualitative description of this process some more advanced mathematical techniques must be used and that not all questions about card shuffling could have been answered so far.

The mathematical topics that come up here stem from (a more abstract version of) Fourier analysis, as applied to random walks on groups, variants of the (stochastic) central limit theorem, and, somewhat surprisingly, a problem from solid state physics is very similar in nature.

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Monday, April 1, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. in Math 103
Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. in Math Lounge 109

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