Speaker
Fernando Blasco
(UPM)
Description
There are a lot of card magic tricks that are based in mathematical properties. There are several tricks related to binary system of numbering but it's not the only example relating computing and magic: even there is a PhD Thesis that studied the relationship between shuffles and dynamic computer memories. Error detecting codes, divisibility properties, algorithms and Gilbreath's principle are just some examples that underlie in some magic tricks. In this talk we present some of those effects as well as the mathematics they are based on. We also give clues for the people who like a deeper knowledge on this subject.
The talk is intended as an interactive talk where attendees participate in "the show".
