Автор: Persi Diaconis, Ron Graham, Martin Gardner
Название: Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks
Издательство: Princeton University Press
Год: 2011
ISBN: 9780691151649
Язык: English
Формат: pdf
Размер: 11,4 mb
Страниц: 264

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.

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.