Talk – 'How To Use Math To Get Rich In The Lottery'

When: April 24, 2017 6:30pm

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 the lottery finally catch up with them? And what does this all have to do with probability, geometry and combinatorics?

This lecture will include an interactive segment, and will be friendly to K-12 teachers, middle and high-school students.

***will not actually help you get rich in the lottery


Audience: All
Audience size: Large (101-500)

Where

Campus: Main Campus

Address

Contact info & links

Contacts

Aubrey Mouradian Mathematics Department

Requests for disability-related accommodations should be directed to the event's primary contact: Aubrey Mouradian