Mathematics, Magic & Mystery | Martin Gardner Derren A red and yellow ball

A red and yellow ball doubles up on sight

The audience sees you draw on the pad prior to the card rising

As the shape of it is very suitable for various coin routines

to do incredible forces on anything

Mathematics, Magic & Mystery | Martin Gardner Derren A red and yellow ballWhy do card tricks work? How can magicians do amazing feats of mathematics mentally? Why do stage "mind reading" tricks work? As a rule we simply accept these tricks as "magic," we seldom recognize that they are really demonstrations of strict laws based on probability, sets, theory of numbers, topology and other branches of mathematics. This is the first book length study of this fascinating branch of recreational mathematics. Written by one of the