{"id":4080,"date":"2015-09-30T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T17:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/what-a-coincidence\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T14:25:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T18:25:06","slug":"what-a-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/what-a-coincidence\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Coincidence!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fall 2015 High Noon Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What are the odds of two people in a room of 23 having the same birthday?\u00a0 You may say not likely, but the math says it\u2019s better than 50 percent.\u00a0 Add another 52 people to the equation and the odds rise to\u00a099.9 percent.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19319\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/john-harris.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19319\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19319 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/john-harris.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. John Harris\" width=\"255\" height=\"227\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/227;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. John Harris<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman University math professor John Harris will explain why that is so and talk about other amazing coincidences that may not be so coincidental when he speaks at the university\u2019s High Noon fall lecture series Wednesday, Oct. 7 at noon at the Upcountry History Museum-Furman.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture, \u201cWhat a Coincidence!,\u201d is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to working with colleagues and students on research projects in graph theory and sports analytics, Dr. Harris has co-authored articles for the Huffington Post and helped create various sports ranking systems for ESPN the Magazine.\u00a0 A graduate of Furman who holds master\u2019s and Ph.D. degrees from Emory University, he joined the faculty in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019 talk is the second of seven consecutive lectures presented by Furman professors during the fall. All lectures are free and begin at noon on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n<p>The Upcountry History Museum\/Furman is located at 540 Buncombe Street in downtown Greenville\u2019s Heritage Green area.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman\u2019s Marketing and Public Relations office at 864-294-3107 or <a href=\"mailto:vince.moore@furman.edu\">vince.moore@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the odds of two people in a room of 23 having the same birthday?\u00a0 You may say not likely, but the math says it\u2019s better than 50 percent. Furman math professor John Harris will explain why that is so and talk about other amazing coincidences that may not be so coincidental when he speaks at the university\u2019s High Noon fall lecture series Wednesday, Oct. 7 at noon at the Upcountry History Museum-Furman.\u00a0The lecture, \u201cWhat a Coincidence!,\u201d is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-mathematics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33154,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions\/33154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}