Undiluted Hocus-Pocus

1914-10-21 – 2010-05-22

Martin Gardner was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was also a leading authority on Lewis Carroll. *-- Wikipedia*

31 January 1945

Persi Warren Diaconis is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. *--Wikipedia* *Photo Attribution:* Søren Fuglede Jørgensen, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons