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Magic, Mathematics, And Playing Cards

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silva, Jorge Nuno
Other Authors: Freitas, Pedro Jorge Santos, Silva, Alexandre, Hirth, Tiago
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2025.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. Nice and Easy
  • Quick tap
  • A game with colors
  • Klein
  • One card out of the pocket
  • Four Kings at the inn
  • The poison card
  • A square of cards
  • The Belchou Aces
  • The four nines
  • The four eights
  • Two Volunteers
  • Two Fibonacci cards
  • Lucky piles
  • Four piles
  • Three card guess
  • The magical sum
  • Out of this world
  • 2. Counting the Cards
  • The date
  • Coins in the pocket
  • Colorful piles
  • Buried treasure
  • Spelling bee
  • Green's "Love"
  • Three cards and three numbers
  • The magic of Manhattan
  • Numerology up and down
  • Remembering the future
  • Kruskal
  • Kraus
  • The keystone card discovery
  • Sum and difference
  • The fingerprint
  • Two cuts
  • The guessing Jokers
  • To impress the ladies
  • Five piles
  • Penelope's coincidence
  • The Elmsley coincidence
  • 3. Shuffle and Deal
  • Rainman
  • Australian
  • Three Australians
  • Australian with company
  • Lost and found
  • Soul mate
  • The whispering Joker
  • Looking for the Joker
  • 31 cards
  • Daisy's socks
  • Ace, two, and three
  • Luísa's twist
  • Liberty, fraternity, and equality
  • Five/three
  • The lady on the train
  • The Hummer equality
  • The Hummer Sum
  • The Hummer flush
  • 4. Secret Codes
  • Out of the pocket
  • Turning rectangles
  • Queens and Kings
  • Tell me what I know
  • The programmed deck
  • The footsteps of the thief
  • Erdős
  • Three coins
  • Turn one
  • Pacioli's two rows
  • Three times seven, 21
  • Three times nine, 27
  • Three rows
  • but not that trick!
  • Memory of colors
  • One fortune serves eight
  • Cheney five-card trick
  • 5. Gilbreath Galore
  • One black, one red
  • The swapped pair
  • Broken Gilbreath
  • A pile, a number, and a color
  • Fourteen cards
  • Seven days a week
  • The phone number
  • The four magic cards
  • The Diaconis poker
  • 6. Order in the Ranks!
  • You choose
  • Two sequences
  • Unfortunate 57
  • How many cards have passed?
  • Magical Tic-Tac-Toe
  • The six piles
  • Automatic counting
  • Sequeira divination
  • Sequeira spelling
  • Two cards indicate another
  • Where is the card?
  • Three in one
  • Joining by suits
  • Where are the red ones?
  • 7. Short Biographies
  • Alex Elmsley
  • Bob Hummer
  • Dai Vernon
  • Lennart Green
  • Martin Gardner
  • Persi Diaconis
  • Appendix
  • Ways of shuffling
  • False
  • Dovetail aka riffle
  • Reverse aka in-and-out
  • Rosetta
  • Cut
  • Monge
  • Milk aka Klondike
  • Australian aka down-and-under
  • Hummer
  • Prepared decks
  • Suits
  • Progression
  • Eight Kings
  • Positional systems
  • Modular arithmetic
  • Bibliography
  • Index