By Persi Diaconis
Magical Mathematics finds the secrets and techniques of fun-to-perform card tricks--and the profound mathematical principles in the back of them--that will astound even the main finished magician. Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham offer effortless, step by step directions for every trick, explaining how one can arrange the impact and providing tips about what to claim and do whereas acting it. each one card trick introduces a brand new mathematical notion, and ranging the tips in flip takes readers to the very threshold of modern mathematical wisdom.
Diaconis and Graham inform the stories--and show the easiest tricks--of the eccentric and terrific inventors of mathematical magic. The e-book exposes previous playing secrets and techniques throughout the arithmetic of shuffling playing cards, explains the vintage street-gambling rip-off of three-card Monte, strains the background of mathematical magic again to the oldest mathematical trick--and a lot more.
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