Great read! At a friend's suggestion, he bought himself a copy of William Feller's textbook An Introduction to Probability and Its Applications but couldn't re

Great read! At a friend's suggestion, he bought himself a copy of William Feller's textbook An Introduction to Probability and Its Applications but couldn't read it because he didn't know calculus. He was 18 at the time. .. At 24, Diaconis began taking evening math classes at the City College of New York. He performed magic tricks during the day to pay his way through school. .. Martin Gardner makes an interesting cameo appearance in this man's life as well.