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A Trick With Horses
I am going to teach you a trick with horses. You can do it at home if you have enough horses. This old trick was famously done by TV’s Derren Brown. We will run a with race
Houdini – The Master Of Topology
Little known fact – in which we specialize – Houdini could have been a great mathematician. Specifically a topologist. Escapology, topology, there are great similarities. Topology is the mathematical study of shapes and spaces. I don’t know
A Trick With Dice
Ten is bigger than five, and five is bigger than one. And so ten is bigger than one. Basic stuff. In symbols (we mathematicians like symbols, more than we like numbers): If A > B and B
Magic Is A Sufficiently Advanced Technology
Posted by Paul in Mathemagical Thinking On August 31, 2018
I have a saying, it is “Magic is indistinguishable from a sufficiently advanced technology,” which is very close to something Arthur C. Clarke said which is “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Ok, I stole
A Trick With Money
Everyone loves money! Everyone loves magic! Everyone loves mathematics! Sadly not all of this is true. Actually most of it is not true. Imagine how difficult it must be for David and me to earn a living.