Mathematics, Magic & Mystery by Martin Gardner - Book Atlas Brookings You take out a set

You take out a set of 20 or so business cards on which you have written denominations of bank notes of whatever currency is normal in your country in a random order

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Mathematics, Magic & Mystery by Martin Gardner - Book Atlas Brookings You take out a setWhy do card tricks work? How can magicians do astonishing 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