Persi Diaconis left home at 14 to work with Dai Vernon as a magician. Trying to protect himself from being cheated in dishonest casinos, he was led to Feller's textbook on probability theory, which he couldn't understand. He started studying calculus at the City College of New York at the age of 24. Some more details may be found in this article.
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