This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially those that depend fundamentally on mathematical ideas.
BARRY MAZUR
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Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present.
Barry MazurBarry Mazur There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.
Barry MazurBarry Mazur Mathematical objects are determined by – and understood by – the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.
Barry MazurBarry Mazur The proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries – how mathematics is one of humanity’s long continuous conversations with itself.
Barry MazurBarry Mazur They range over many delicious topics, giving us an enchanting personal view of the history and practice of magic, of mathematics, and of the fascinating connection between the two cultures. Magical Mathematics will have an utterly devoted readership.
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