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MAGICAL MATHEMATICS
THE MATHEMATICAL IDEAS THAT ANIMATE GREAT MAGIC TRICKS |
| By: |
Persi Diaconis, Ron Graham, Martin Gardner (Foreword) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£25.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691151644 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691151649 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
23 October, 2011 |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Description: |
Reveals the secrets of card tricks, and the mathematical ideas behind them. This title provides instructions for these tricks, explaining how to set up the effect and offering tips on what to say and do while performing these. It covers the mathematics of juggling and shows how the I Ching connects to the history of probability and magic tricks. |
| Synopsis: |
Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of fun-to-perform card tricks-and the profound mathematical ideas behind them-that will astound even the most accomplished magician. Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham provide easy, step-by-step instructions for each trick, explaining how to set up the effect and offering tips on what to say and do while performing it. Each card trick introduces a new mathematical idea, and varying the tricks in turn takes readers to the very threshold of today's mathematical knowledge.Diaconis and Graham tell the stories-and reveal the best tricks-of the eccentric and brilliant inventors of mathematical magic. The book exposes old gambling secrets through the mathematics of shuffling cards, explains the classic street-gambling scam of three-card Monte, traces the history of mathematical magic back to the oldest mathematical trick-and much more. |
| Illustrations: |
133 color illus. 14 halftones. 56 line illus. 10 tables. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Winner, 2013 Euler Book Prize, Mathematical Association of
Commended for Honorable Mention, 2012 PROSE Award, Popular Science & |
| Returns: |
Returnable |