Encyclopedia of Card Tricks

Encyclopedia of Card TricksIn the first decades of the twentieth century magicians filled the magic journals with articles on card tricks, giving improvements on classic tricks and inventing new ones. If you could put together a collection of these magazines you would have almost a complete course on card tricks, by some of the world's greatest magicians. But where could you find these journals now that they are probably collector's items? And even if you could find them, how

a subject of central importance in mathematics and also one with many applications

The text develops the elementary ideas of both group theory and representation theory in a progressive and thorough fashion

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this book will challenge the imaginations and knowledge of musical-theater and nostalgia buffs

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theory of combinations

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If you've ever seen a pop-up book or card