Magical Mathematics

Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of amazing, 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. For example, the Gilbreath principle - a fantastic effect where the cards remain in control despite being shuffled--is found to share an intimate connection with the Mandelbrot set. Other card tricks link to the mathematical secrets of combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, topology, the Riemann hypothesis, and even Fermat's last theorem.

Info autore

Persi Diaconis & Ron Graham
With a foreword by Martin Gardner

Riassunto

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 perform

Testo aggiuntivo

"While there are other books out there detailing the relationship between mathematics and magic, this book is perhaps the best written of them all, as it will appeal to magicians, math buffs and general readers alike."---R. S. Beer, MagicBookReviews.com

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Persi Diaconis, Persi Graham Diaconis, Diaconis Persi, Ron Graham, Graham Ron
• Con la collaborazione di: Martin Gardner (Prefazione)
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9780691169774
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16977-4
• Pagine: 264
• Dimensioni: 216 mm x 240 mm x 14 mm
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; PERFORMING ARTS / General, MATHEMATICS / Recreations & Games, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Magic, Popular and recreational mathematics, Popular mathematics, Conjuring & Magic, Conjuring and magic