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David Rentzel
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Early Life and Education
Rentzel was born in Boise, Idaho in 1968. His early academic trajectory was noted for its unusual bifurcation: intense study in advanced mathematics alongside rigorous apprenticeship in stage magic, culminating in his 1988 junior fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Caltech in 1994, with a dissertation titled, The Topological Improbability of Card Tricks and Its Relation to the Poincaré Disk Model.
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