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Card Magic and My mathematical Discoveries
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alexiomatics
Apr 25, 2013, 10:17:23 AM4/25/13
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I just published my first ebook titled “Card Magic and My Mathematical Discoveries” The book is an excellent mathematics resource for both performing art and implicit mathematics teaching. Moreover, the book is not only about card magic but it is also loaded with riddles, mathematical amusement and mind-blowing mathematical discoveries characterized by logical intelligence.
Students, card magic performers, mathematics tutors, programmers, researchers in the field of numbers especially prime number and people who have been dreaming of exploring new areas of mathematical endeavor to develop their own mathematics would find the book more captivating and explosive.
Please follow the three links below for more information.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/adekola-taylor/card-magic-and-my-mathematical-discoveries/ebook/product-20696926.html
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/card-magic-my-mathematical/id604542097?mt=11
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/card-magic-and-my-mathematical-discoveries-adekola-taylor/1114719917
Excerpts from the Book
Excerpt one: The Card Mathematical Magic
Deal out 64 cards face down into a grid of 4 columns and 18 rows. Do this by dealing out 4 cards horizontally in a row, then 4more cards just above the first 4, then 4 more, etc., until you have 18 cards in each column. Discard the remaining cards. Only these 64 cards would be used to play. Ask 4 spectators to take a card each out of the 64 cards without making you to see the face of their chosen cards. Collect the remaining 60 cards into a deck.
With the spectators’ cards in their hands, deal out the remaining cards face down into 4 columns and 5 rows. In other words, each column is having 5 cards. Ask the first spectator to put his chosen card with its face down on the first column without making you to see the face of his chosen card. Afterwards, deal out one card each on the remaining columns to make 6 cards per column. Again deal out one card each on the columns to make 7 cards per column. Ask the second, the third and the fourth spectators to put their chosen cards on the first, second and third columns respectively, and then deal out one card on the fourth column to make 8 cards per column.
Afterwards, deal out the remaining 32 cards, starting from the first column to the fourth column until you have 18 cards in each column. Collect the 64 cards into a vertical column, with cards in column 1 at the top, followed by cards in column 2, followed by cards in column 3 and cards in column 4 at the bottom. Deal out all the 64 cards into 4 columns and 18 rows, starting from the topmost card to last card at the bottom.
Again collect the 64 cards into a vertical column as described above. Repeat the whole process of dealing out of the 64 cards once without any disruption. After the dealing out, gather all the cards into a single vertical column as usual, and then the first spectator’s chosen card would be at 21st , the second , the third and the fourth spectators ‘cards would be 29th , 30th and 31st positions respectively counting from top downward.
Excerpt Two: The Mathematics
(1) A performer wanted to perform a card mathematical magic with 60 cards which were to be grouped into 6 columns with each column having 10 cards. If his plan was to put the spectator’s card at the horizontal position ranking value (Phd0) = 5 at the starting distribution (d0) and to pick it up vertically at distribution 3 (d3), what would be the vertical position ranking value (Pvd3) of the spectator’s card at d3?
Excerpt Three: The Riddle from the Future
Consider this highly classified dream loaded with prime number problems:
A young man had a dream. He found himself in a room with two of his principal tormentors in his world of dreams. In this dream, he sat on a chair holding a transparent plastic plate containing a kind of sticky colorless fluid and a small solid like the shape of the earth. All of a sudden, as he was shaking the transparent plastic plate that he was holding, a miniaturized human being like the height and size of his middle finger came out of the transparent plate. And this miniaturized being said to the young man “I came from the future, the number of the years is 1000th prime number minus 773rd prime number. I did not meet the elect in this particular year because Christ had taken them away”. The young man shouted “We are in the year 2012 that is 1000th prime number minus 993rd prime number minus a dozen and two years into the future”.
Can you unravel this particular year that the miniaturized man was referring to?
Students, card magic performers, mathematics tutors, programmers, researchers in the field of numbers especially prime number and people who have been dreaming of exploring new areas of mathematical endeavor to develop their own mathematics would find the book more captivating and explosive.
Please follow the three links below for more information.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/adekola-taylor/card-magic-and-my-mathematical-discoveries/ebook/product-20696926.html
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/card-magic-my-mathematical/id604542097?mt=11
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/card-magic-and-my-mathematical-discoveries-adekola-taylor/1114719917
Excerpts from the Book
Excerpt one: The Card Mathematical Magic
Deal out 64 cards face down into a grid of 4 columns and 18 rows. Do this by dealing out 4 cards horizontally in a row, then 4more cards just above the first 4, then 4 more, etc., until you have 18 cards in each column. Discard the remaining cards. Only these 64 cards would be used to play. Ask 4 spectators to take a card each out of the 64 cards without making you to see the face of their chosen cards. Collect the remaining 60 cards into a deck.
With the spectators’ cards in their hands, deal out the remaining cards face down into 4 columns and 5 rows. In other words, each column is having 5 cards. Ask the first spectator to put his chosen card with its face down on the first column without making you to see the face of his chosen card. Afterwards, deal out one card each on the remaining columns to make 6 cards per column. Again deal out one card each on the columns to make 7 cards per column. Ask the second, the third and the fourth spectators to put their chosen cards on the first, second and third columns respectively, and then deal out one card on the fourth column to make 8 cards per column.
Afterwards, deal out the remaining 32 cards, starting from the first column to the fourth column until you have 18 cards in each column. Collect the 64 cards into a vertical column, with cards in column 1 at the top, followed by cards in column 2, followed by cards in column 3 and cards in column 4 at the bottom. Deal out all the 64 cards into 4 columns and 18 rows, starting from the topmost card to last card at the bottom.
Again collect the 64 cards into a vertical column as described above. Repeat the whole process of dealing out of the 64 cards once without any disruption. After the dealing out, gather all the cards into a single vertical column as usual, and then the first spectator’s chosen card would be at 21st , the second , the third and the fourth spectators ‘cards would be 29th , 30th and 31st positions respectively counting from top downward.
Excerpt Two: The Mathematics
(1) A performer wanted to perform a card mathematical magic with 60 cards which were to be grouped into 6 columns with each column having 10 cards. If his plan was to put the spectator’s card at the horizontal position ranking value (Phd0) = 5 at the starting distribution (d0) and to pick it up vertically at distribution 3 (d3), what would be the vertical position ranking value (Pvd3) of the spectator’s card at d3?
Excerpt Three: The Riddle from the Future
Consider this highly classified dream loaded with prime number problems:
A young man had a dream. He found himself in a room with two of his principal tormentors in his world of dreams. In this dream, he sat on a chair holding a transparent plastic plate containing a kind of sticky colorless fluid and a small solid like the shape of the earth. All of a sudden, as he was shaking the transparent plastic plate that he was holding, a miniaturized human being like the height and size of his middle finger came out of the transparent plate. And this miniaturized being said to the young man “I came from the future, the number of the years is 1000th prime number minus 773rd prime number. I did not meet the elect in this particular year because Christ had taken them away”. The young man shouted “We are in the year 2012 that is 1000th prime number minus 993rd prime number minus a dozen and two years into the future”.
Can you unravel this particular year that the miniaturized man was referring to?
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