
Secrets of Mental Math
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Foreword by Bill Nye (the Science Guy®)
- Foreword by James Randi
- Prologue by Michael Shermer
- Introduction by Arthur Benjamin
- Chapter 0: Quick Tricks: Easy (and Impressive) Calculations
- Chapter 1: A Little Give and Take: Mental Addition and Subtraction
- Chapter 2: Products of a Misspent Youth: Basic Multiplication
- Chapter 3: New and Improved Products: Intermediate Multiplication
- Chapter 4: Divide and Conquer: Mental Division
- Chapter 5: Good Enough: The Art of "Guesstimation"
- Chapter 6: Math for the Board: Pencil-and-Paper Math
- Chapter 7: A Memorable Chapter: Memorizing Numbers
- Chapter 8: The Tough Stuff Made Easy: Advanced Multiplication
- Chapter 9: Presto-digit-ation: The Art of Mathematical Magic
- Chapter 8: Epilogue by Michael Shermer: How Math Helps Us Think About Weird Things
- Answers
- Bibliography
- About the Authors
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