[Is this that Dave Bayer & Persi Diaconis riffle shuffling paper? I read it like six years ago and don't remember any details, but it's on my HD somewhere. XD I'm all for h*archate crayfish!
Speaking of textbook cover illustrations, David Griffith's Introduction to Quantum Mechanics has, or had in the edition that Joe used back in undergrad, a live cat on the front cover and a dead cat on the back cover. Joe kept telling me that the cat was asleep, not dead, but that's not the version of Schrödinger's Cat I heard...>:[ ]
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Re: jeng-zai shuffles
Date: 2018-02-03 11:56 pm (UTC)Speaking of textbook cover illustrations, David Griffith's Introduction to Quantum Mechanics has, or had in the edition that Joe used back in undergrad, a live cat on the front cover and a dead cat on the back cover. Joe kept telling me that the cat was asleep, not dead, but that's not the version of Schrödinger's Cat I heard...>:[ ]