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For seven years, a group of students from MIT exploited a loophole in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s Cash WinFall game to win drawing after drawing, eventually pocketing more than $3 million. How did they do it? How did they get away with it? And what does this all have to do with mathematical entities like finite geometries, variance of probability distributions, and error-correcting codes?
Jordan Ellenberg is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research centers on number theory and algebraic geometry. Ellenberg is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of The Grasshopper King, a novel, and How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, a New York Times and Sunday Times (UK) best seller and the winner of the 2016 Euler Book Prize.
You can find more information about speaker Jordan Ellenberg at http://www.math.wisc.edu/~ellenber/