Mathstat Graduate Student Seminar - Benoit Corsini

This week,Benoît Corsiniwill talk to us abouthow to count cards and make millions:

What does a regular weekend look like? As all mathematicians do, it probably involves solving Rubik's cube, writing complicated formulae on a white board and playing Sudoku. But this is all going to change! In this week's pizza seminar, I will present the game of Black Jack and related probabilities. I will start by giving the basic rules of this game, before explaining the odds and how to flip them in your favour by counting cards. After this, there is no excuse not to go to the closest casinos, beat the dealer, and run away from the security cards (cf Las Vegas 21).

See you all there!

All graduate students are invited. As with all talks in the graduate student seminar, this talk will be accessible to all graduate students in math and stats.This seminar was made possible by funding from the McGill Mathematics and Statistics Department and PGSS.