A woman with a Stanford PhD in mathematics has been claimed to have cracked the lottery algorithm after winning the lottery four times and collecting more than $20 million | World News
At first glance, Joan R. Ginther’s story sounds almost too extraordinary to be true. The American mathematician, who earned a doctorate in statistics from Stanford University, won four major Texas Lottery prizes between 1993 and 2010, collecting more than $20 million in total. Her repeated success quickly sparked speculation that she had discovered a mathematical…