The math behind the magic : fascinating card and number tricks and how they work
Ehrhard Behrends (Author), David Kramer (Translator)
"A magician appears able to banish chaos at will: a deck of cards arranged in order is shuffled apparently randomly by a member of the audience. Then, hey presto! The deck is suddenly put back in its original order! Magic tricks like this are easy to perform and have an interesting mathematical foundation. In this rich, colorfully illustrated volume, Ehrhard Behrends presents around 30 card tricks and number games that are easy to learn, with no prior knowledge required. This is math as you've never experienced it before: entertaining and fun!"--Publisher's description
Print Book, English, 2019
American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 2019
Puzzles and games
xx, 208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9781470448660, 1470448661
1089881340
Read me!
You can count on it
Let's mix it up!
Optimally packaged information : coding
Chance makes magic
Appendices: The magical triangle ; Intransivity : probabilities
Originally published in German: Der mathematische Zauberstab (Hamburg : Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 2015)