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Secrets Of Mental Math By Arthur Benjamin Michael Shermer

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secrets of mental math by arthur benjamin michael shermer

The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks WINNER 2007 New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age Arthur Benjamin is a professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. He is also a professional magician and performs his mixture of math and magic all over the world. Michael Shermer is host of the Caltech public lecture series, a contributing editor to and monthly columnist of Scientific American, the publisher of Skeptic magazine, and the author of several science books.

He lives in Altadena, California. By Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer and Bill Nye Dr Arthur Benjamin is a professor of Mathematics in California. He is also a professional magician. I like to think about the first humans, the people who came up with the idea to count things. They must have noticed right away that figuring on your fingertips works great.

Perhaps Og (a typical ancient cave guy) or one of his pals or associates said, There are one, two, three, four, five of us here, so we need five pieces of fruit. Later, Hey, look, someone must have said (or grunted), you can count the number of people at the campfire, the number of birds on a tree, stones in a row, logs for a fire,... It was a great start. It’s probably also how you came to first know numbers. You’ve probably heard that math is the language of science, or the language of Nature is mathematics. Well, it’s true.

The more we understand the universe, the more we discover its mathematical connections. Flowers have spirals that line up with a special sequence of numbers (called Fibonacci numbers) that you can understand and generate yourself. Seashells form in perfect mathematical curves (logarithmic spirals) that come from a chemical balance. Star clusters tug on one another in a mathematical dance that we can observe and understand from millions and even billions of kilometers away. We have spent centuries discovering the mathematical nature of Nature. With each discovery, someone had to go through the math and make sure the numbers were right.

Well, Secrets of Mental Math can help you handle all kinds of numbers. You’ll get comfortable with calculations in a way that will let you know some of Nature’s numerical secrets, and who knows where that might take you? Get ready to amaze your friends — and yourself — with incredible calculations you never thought you could master. This book will teach you to do math in your head faster than you ever thought possible, dramatically improve your memory for numbers, and — maybe for the first time — make mathematics fun. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers.

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