Mulcahy, C: Mathematical Card Tricks

Colm: Cool and Collected by Max Maven Hit the Deck Running Tips of the Trade The Ratings Game Principles Convention Center Low-Down Triple Dealing Three Scoop Miracle-Done Magic Before? Any Card (and Any Magician) Triple Revelation Ace Combination For Richer or Poorer Alphabetical Triple Addition Subtler Bracelet From Alpha to Omega Volunteer Four Hours Poker Powers Ditch the Dud Worst-Case Scenario Full House Blues Poker with Any Ten Cards More Additional Certainties Little Fibs Consolidating Your Cards Matching Interest Rates Any Two Cards (No Fibbing) Off-Centered COATs Celebrity Selection Never Forget a Face Oddly Enough My Lucky Number Is Seven Gilbreath Variations Easy as Pi Lucky Number between One and Thirteen Unadditional Love Tapped Out Word Row The Biggest Names in Magic Twisting the Knight Away Easy as Tau (I Prefer Pi) Intrinsically Disordered Bligreath and Beyond Matchmaker Instincts The Guessing Game Flushed with Embarrassment Wholesome Threesomes Flipping Miracles I'll Be Lucking Out for You Coprime Twins Royal Flush at the Eleventh Hour Any Mathemagician Red, Black, Silver, and Gold Double Location Top Twenty Hit What's Black and Red and Red All Over? Gold and Silver Slippery Slopes Ten Soldiers Slippery Enough Erdos Numbers No Drama Queen Hamming It Down A Horse of a Different Color Multiple Personality Poker-Faced And Now for Something Completely Different The Hidden Value of Cards Fitch Cheney's Five-Card Twist Eigen's Value Ups and Downs Fitch Four Glory Coda Acknowledgements Bibliography Index

Colm Mulcahy is a professor of mathematics at Spelman College. Over the last decade, he has been at the forefront of publishing new "mathemagical" principles and effects for cards, particularly in his long-running bi-monthly Card Colm for the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). He also blogs at the Aperiodical and the Huffington Post. Dr. Mulcahy has been a recipient of the MAA's Allendoerfer Award for excellence in expository writing. His interests are broad, ranging from algebra and number theory to geometry. He earned a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in mathematical science from University College Dublin and a PhD from Cornell University for research in the algebraic theory of quadratic forms.

"Mathematical Card Magic is filled with many original ideas that will keep mathematicians and magicians busy for a very long time." -Arthur Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College, and author of Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks "Colm Mulcahy has produced a stimulating collection of novel card magic tricks that not only form a wonderful introduction to important ideas in combinatorics but also contain some very nifty magic effects as well. By reading this book, the reader will be well rewarded in both disciplines." -Ronald Graham, University of California, San Diego, and co-author of Magical Mathematics "Colm has invented many important and practical mathematical principles and tailor-made them for card magic. He's a skilled teacher and creator, and with his book in hand you'll be able to construct lots of new effects. A must for your magic library." -Lennart Green, 1991 World Champion in Card Magic, Sweden "This is an amazing volume! Prof. Mulcahy has left one mystery for his readers to solve: Is it a really good math book, using card tricks to explain the math, or is it a really good magic book, using math to explain the magic? Either way, there's not a wrong answer to this question." -S. Brent Morris, PhD, author of Magic Tricks, Card Shuffling, and Dynamic Computer Memories "In the early 1900s there began a new blossoming of mathematical magic, via such brilliant inventors as Charles T. Jordan, Stewart James, Robert Hummer and Martin Gardner. You'll meet the above-mentioned people, plus many other worthwhile thinkers, in the book that you are about to read. Colm Mulcahy has joined those ranks. His bi-monthly Card Colm has appeared on the website of the Mathematical Association of America since 2004 ... If you have been a Card Colm reader, you already know the quality of his imaginative output. You will find much of the best material from that column here in this collection, revised and improved. You will