Mathematics, Magic and Mystery

Martin Gardner

Publisher:

Dover Publications

Publication Date:

1956

Number of Pages:

176

Format:

Paperback

Price:

7.95

ISBN:

0486203352

Category:

General

BLL Rating:

BLL*

The Basic Library List Committee recommends this book for acquisition by undergraduate mathematics libraries.

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Preface
	1.	Tricks with Cards--Part I
		The Curiosities of Peirce
		The Five Poker Hands
		Tricks Using Cards as Counting Units
		The Piano Trick
		The Estimated Cut
		Tricks Using the Numerical Values
		Findley's Four-card Trick
		A Baffling Prediction
		Henry Christ's Improvement
		The Cyclic Number
		The Missing Card
		Jordan's Method
		Tricks Based on Division of Colors and Suits
		Stewart James' Color Prediction
		The Royal Pairs
		Tricks Using Front and Back
		Matching the Colors
		Hummer's Reversal Mystery
		The Little Moonies
	2.	Tricks with Cards--Part II
		O'Connor's Four-ace Trick
		The Magic of Manhattan
		Predicting the Shift
		The Keystone Card Discovery
		Two-pile Location
		Spelling the Spades
		Elmsley's Card Coincidence
		Magic by Mail
		Belchou's Aces
		The Tit-Tat-Toe Trick
		Other Tricks of Interest
	3.	From Gergonne to Gargantua
		Naming the Position of the Card
		Bringing the Card to a Named Position
		Walker's Method
		Naming the Card
		Relation to Ternary System
		Gargantua's Ten-pile Problem
	4.	Magic with Common Objects
		Dice
		Guessing the Total
		Frank Dodd's Prediction
		Positional Notation Tricks
		Hummer's Die Mystery
		Dominoes
		The Break in the Chain
		The Row of Thirteen
		Calendars
		Magic Squares
		Gibson's Circled Dates
		Stover's Prediction
		Calendar Memorizing
		Watches
		Tapping the Hours
		Die and Watch Mystery
		Dollar Bills
		Heath's Bill Trick
		Matches
		The Three Heaps
		Match Folder Mind-Reading
		The Tramps and Chickens
		The Purloined Objects
		Coins
		The Nine Mystery
		Which Hand?
		Heath's Variation
		Heads or Tails?
		Checkerboards
		Hummer's Checker Trick
		Miscellaneous Objects
		Hummer's Three-Object Divination
		Yates' Four-Object Divination
	5.	Topological Tomfoolery
		The Afghan Bands
		Handkerchief Tricks
		Finger Escape
		Tabor's Interlocked Handkerchiefs
		Knotty Problems
		String and Rope
		Garter Tricks
		The Giant's Garter
		More String Tricks
		Clothing
		The Puzzling Loop
		Reversing the Vest
		Removing the Vest
		Rubber Bands
		The Jumping Band
		The Twisted Band
	6.	Tricks with Special Equipment
		Number Cards
		Window Cards
		Sam Lloyd's Version
		Tap Tricks
		Crazy Time
		"Heath's "Tappit"
		Tap-a-Drink
		Tap-an-Animal
		The Riddle Card
		Dice and Domino Tricks
		"Heath's "Di-Ciphering"
		Sure-Shot Dice Box
		Blyth's Domino Box
		Blocks of India
		Hummer Tricks
	7.	Geometrical Vanishes--Part I
		The Line Paradox
		Sam Lloyd's Flag Puzzle
		The Vanishing Face
		"Get Off the Earth"
		DeLand's Paradox
		The Vanishing Rabbit
		Stover's Variations
	8.	Geometrical Vanishes--Part II
		The Checkerboard Paradox
		Hooper's Paradox
		Square Variation
		Fibonacci Series
		Langman's Version
		Curry's Paradox
		Curry Triangles
		Four-piece Squares
		Three-piece Squares
		Two-piece Squares
		Curved and 3-D Forms
	9.	Magic with Pure Numbers
		Rapid Cube Root Extraction
		Adding a Fibonacci Series
		Predicting a Number
		Curry's Version
		Al Baker's Version
		Divining a Number
		The Mysteries of Nine
		Digital Roots
		Persistent Root
		Guessing Someone's Age
		An Addition Trick
		A Multiplication Trick
		The Mysteries of Seven
		Predicting a Sum
		"Al Baker's "Numero"
		Psychological Forces
	Name Index