E-Books →Mathematical Principles in Illusionism From the Trick that Fooled Einstein to Predicting the National Lottery

Lorenzo Paletti, Andrea Piccinelli, Mariano Tomatis, "Mathematical Principles in Illusionism: From the Trick that Fooled Einstein to Predicting the National Lottery"
English | 2020 | ASIN: B08GFPM9XB, B085MKGL9J | EPUB | pages: 118 | 0.8 mb
Do you want to know how you can predict the outcome of a horse race with absolute precision? Find out if a person is lying? Modify the odds of a coin toss? Get the phone number of a girl with a simple trick? Or do you just want to know the method used by an English illusionist to predict the national lottery?Forget what you thought you knew about mathematical magic and find out how you can use numbers to create miracles.From a lecture presented at the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Italy, Mathematical Principles In Illusionism is a text addressed to laymen who want to learn simple magic effects of great impact and professionals willing to stake their prejudices.Lorenzo Paletti, physicist and conjuror, presents an amazing collection of mathematical games taken from the repertoire of professionals like Steven "Dynamo" Frayne and Derren Brown.How can you transform a mathematical curiosity into an effect suitable for a professional show? Come and find out.