Mathematics, Magic & Mystery | Martin Gardner Ellis and Celebrity Presage's PPNS system

and Celebrity Presage's PPNS system is an exciting new fooler - especially when layered with the other built-in methods

a stick melts through a spectator's selected card

And it's taken your pocket and again the coin returns to the hand

- Stephen Yachanin

it has become a staple in the routines of magicians worldwide

Mathematics, Magic & Mystery | Martin Gardner Ellis and Celebrity Presage's PPNS systemWhy do card tricks work? How can magicians do amazing feats of mathematics mentally? Why do stage "mind reading" tricks work? As a rule we simply accept these tricks as "magic," we seldom recognize that they are really demonstrations of strict laws based on probability, sets, theory of numbers, topology and other branches of mathematics. This is the first book length study of this fascinating branch of recreational mathematics. Written by one of the