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BY ROYAL
VALE HEATH
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MATH EMAGIC
MAGIC, PUZZLES, AND
GAMES WITH NUMBERS
ILLUSTRATED
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BY
GERALD LYNTON
BY
JEROME
S.
KAUFMAN
MEYER
EDITED
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Copyright
©
1933 by Royal Vale Heath.
Copyright
©
1953 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved under Pan American and Inter-
national Copyright Conventions.
Published in Canada by General Publishing Com-
pany, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto,
Ontario.
Published in the United Kingdom by Constable
and Company, Ltd., 10 Orange Street, London WC 2.
This Dover edition, first published in 1953, is an
unabridged republication of the work originally
published by Simon and Schuster, Inc. in 1933.
fnteT1lational Standm'd Book Number: 0-486-20110-4
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of
Congress Catalog Card Number: 54-1777
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc.
180 Varick Street
New York, N. Y. 10014
FOREWORD
By
BERNARD
M. L.
ERNST
President of the Society of American Magicians
(Parent Assembly)
Throughout the ages men have been interested in mystery and
in things that are strange and startling. As in the past, modern
magic derives much of its glamor from phenomena which super-
ficially are inexplicable and from the unanticipated results of seem-
ingly normal and commonplace devices and experiments. In recent
years so-called "Mathematical Magic" is coming into its own.
There are mathematical geniuses and prodigies but these indi-
viduals possess inherent gifts which are not poss.::ssed by others,
and their demonstrations, though startling, are not magic.
Mr. Heath has invented and collected strange things in numbers
and in their combination and treatment. He presents in this volume
magic mathematical effects which he makes available to all. You
select your own digits, he tells you what to do with them, and he
announces the result of your own calculations with your own figures.
He shows you how you will be surprised in your own treatment of
your own numbers. He tells you about many things that can be
done by simple "figuring" which are amazing and at first unbe-
lievable.
During the summer of 1929 the author became a member of the
Parent Assembly of the Society of American Magicians in New
York. After a time a blackboard appeared at every monthly meet-
ing of the assembly and Mr. Heath presented one or more new
and original effects in mathematics, all of them as experiments in
the "Magic of Numbers." They were so unusual and interesting
that he was prevailed upon to publish this book and give many of
his ideas to the world. His task has been to select items from his
numerous creations and to compress them within the confines of
a single volume. His work has been done exceptionally well as the
reader will find when he reads the items and puts them into practice.
In these days of mental games and of cross-word and jig-saw
puzzles, mathematical magic, long neglected by the general public,
should find an enthusiastic response. With it one can entertain
oneself and one's friends as well, and, if so inclined, readily build
up an "act" for public exhibition and professional profit.
The attractive illustrations in the pages which follow are by
Gerald Lynton Kaufman, a well-known New York architect and
artist, who is also a member of the Parent Assembly of the Society
of American Magicians, and who was so much impressed by Mr.
Heath's manipulations with numbers, that artist-like, he simply
had
to make the drawings. Mr. Heath's many friends are already
awaiting the publication by him of a supplementary volume with
other problems and more of Mr. Kaufman's drawings.
THIS BOOK HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE COM-
MITTEE ON ETHICS AND STANDARDS OF THE
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MAGICIANS AS NOT DETRI-
MENTAL TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PROFES-
SIONAL MAGICIANS OF AMERICA.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author wishes to acknowledge his indebted-
ness to Mrs. Clark B. Allen, Bernard M.
L.
Ernst, Gerald Lynton Kaufman, Jerome S.
Meyer, John Mulholland, Robert C. Myles, Jr.,
and Professor Shirley
L.
Quimby for the help
and encouragement they have given him in the
writing of this book.

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