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A mathemagician is a mathematician who is also a magician.
The name "mathemagician" was probably first applied to Martin Gardner, but has since been used to describe many mathematician/magicians, including Arthur T. Benjamin, Persi Diaconis, and Colm Mulcahy. Diaconis has suggested that the reason so many mathematicians are magicians is that "inventing a magic trick and inventing a theorem are very similar activities."
A great number of self-working mentalism tricks rely on mathematical principles. Max Maven often utilizes this type of magic in his performance.
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Notable mathemagicians
- Arthur T. Benjamin
- Persi Diaconis
- Richard Feynman
- Karl Fulves
- Martin Gardner
- Ronald Graham
- Colm Mulcahy
- Raymond Smullyan
- Bernard Meulenbroek
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In popular culture
- There is a character named "the Mathemagician" in the 1961 book The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. This character is king of a magical realm of numbers. His brother and arch-enemy is king of the realm of words.
- In the Simpsons episode "Grade School Confidential", a "Mathemagician" performs mathematical tricks at Martin Prince's birthday party. He is exposed by Lisa Simpson as doing at least one trick by "cheating".
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References
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Further reading
- Diaconis, Persi & Graham, Ron. Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks Princeton University Press, 2012. ISBN 0691169772
- Fulves, Karl. Self-working Number Magic, New York London : Dover Constable, 1983. ISBN 0486243915
- Gardner, Martin. Mathematics, Magic and Mystery, Dover, 1956ISBN 0-486-20335-2
- Ron Graham, Ron. Juggling Mathematics and Magic University of California, San Diego
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