Magic tricks, card shuffling, and dynamic computer memories
Here is a book that explores the fascinating interconnections between three seemingly unrelated topics. Each chapter begins with the description of a card trick and ends with its explanation, usually using some mathematics developed earlier. The book itself is designed as a prop for a trick, but you don't need to use mathematics or even understand it to do some 'magic'.
Print Book, English, ©1998
Mathematical Association of America, [Washington, D.C.], ©1998
xviii, 148 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780883855270, 0883855275
1131592589
Introduction; 1. The perfect shuffle; 2. The order of shuffles; 3. Shuffle groups; 4. Generalizing the perfect shuffle; 5. Dynamic computer memories. Appendix 1. The order of shuffles; Appendix 2. How to do the Faro shuffle; Appendix 3. Tours on decks of size 8, 16, 32 and 64; Appendix 4. A Lagniappe; Bibliography.