Secrets of Mental Math The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
by Benjamin, Arthur; Shermer, Michael; Nye, BillBuy New
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Summary
Author Biography
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.
Table of Contents
| Foreword by Bill Nye (the Science Guys) | xi | ||
| Foreword by James Randi | xvii | ||
| Prologue by Michael Shermer | xix | ||
| Introduction by Arthur Benjamin | xxiii | ||
| Chapter 0 Quick Tricks: Easy (and Impressive) Calculations | 1 | (10) | |
| Chapter 1 A Little Give and Take: Mental Addition and Subtraction | 11 | (18) | |
| Chapter 2 Products of a Misspent Youth: Basic Multiplication | 29 | (24) | |
| Chapter 3 New and Improved Products: Intermediate Multiplication | 53 | (27) | |
| Chapter 4 Divide and Conquer: Mental Division | 80 | (28) | |
| Chapter 5 Good Enough: The Art of "Guesstimation" | 108 | (23) | |
| Chapter 6 Math for the Board: Pencil-and-Paper Math | 131 | (20) | |
| Chapter 7 A Memorable Chapter: Memorizing Numbers | 151 | (12) | |
| Chapter 8 The Tough Stuff Made Easy: Advanced Multiplication | 163 | (36) | |
| Chapter 9 Presto-digit-ation: The Art of Mathematical Magic | 199 | (23) | |
| Chapter infinity Epilogue by Michael Shermer: How Math Helps Us Think About Weird Things | 222 | (11) | |
| Answers | 233 | (38) | |
| Bibliography | 271 | (2) | |
| Index | 273 |
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