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Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Princeton Univ Pr
Publication date October 3, 2011
Pages 244
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780691151649
ISBN-10 0691151644
Dimensions 0.75 by 8.75 by 10 in.
Weight 1.92 lbs.
Original list price $29.95
Other format details university press
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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.



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Hardcover
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With Martin Gardner (other contributor), Persi Diaconis | from Princeton Univ Pr (October 3, 2011)
9780691151649 | details & prices | 244 pages | 8.75 × 10.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.92 lbs | List price $29.95
About: 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.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780536584212 Book cover for 9780691169774
 
With Martin Gardner (other contributor), Persi Diaconis | Reprint edition from Princeton Univ Pr (October 13, 2015)
9780691169774 | details & prices | 244 pages | 8.50 × 9.75 × 0.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $19.95
With Richard H. Schwartz, Persi Diaconis | 3rd edition from Ginn Pr (June 1, 1993); titled "Mathematics and Global Survival"
9780536584212 | details & prices | 8.50 × 11.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $47.35
This edition also contains Mathematics and Global Survival

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