In the beginning...
A very good place to start
When you read you begin with ABC
When you sing you begin with Do, Re, Mi, Do, Re, Mi
The first three course prerequisites just happen to be:
- Math 213 Calculus III
- Math 261 Number Theory or Math 214 Diff'l Eqns
- Math 322 Matrix Algebra
- Math 321 Intro Num Methods
- Math 351 Topology I
- Math 361 Modern Algebra I
- Math 471 Advanced Calculus
When I think of math I usually think of people working on theorems or figuring out algebra problems. When I think of magic I usually think of a magician and movies or performers I have seen on America's got talent or Vegas. Honestly, when I saw the books for the course I was surprised. However, now thinking about how these two topics relate it makes sense to me that they can be intertwined especially for card tricks. For games like black jack math can be used to count cards in favor of the player so it makes sense to me that you can stack a deck mathematically in order to do a magic trick in the magicians favor. A magic trick that comes to the top of my head is the cutting the boxes while someone is inside. I could see mathematics being involved in this trick. Using fractions to divide up the boxes in order to cut accurately and place the person inside would be a way to use math in that situation.
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