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|  | Authors: Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
List Price: $12.95
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 2403
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0307338401
Dewey Decimal Number: 510
EAN: 9780307338402
ASIN: 0307338401
Publication Date: August 8, 2006
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This book delivers as promised! November 17, 2007
Abraham S. Mantell (East Meadow, New York United States)
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
If you have a chance to see Art Benjamin in action, DO IT!!! He is very entertaining, great with the audience, and quite a showman! On top of that, his facility with numbers is awesome! This book details his "secrets"!!!
(Although he does not divulge how he does the invisible card trick!!!) ;->
Great Book November 8, 2007
memoiai (USA)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Great, concise, and helpful book. Plenty of examples, clear cut explanations, and fun exercises made reading this book a worthwhile endeavor. I recommend it to anyone to help brush up math skills and learn newer and better ways of solving math problems.
Great for SAT/GRE study! September 25, 2007
Zach Foreman (Arlington, Virginia)
72 out of 75 found this review helpful
I am a professional SAT/GRE teacher and tutor, achieving an 800 in the GRE math section. After telling many students that the secret to the math section is mental math and approximation, I decided to see what books were available. I saw that this one had good reviews and ever since then I have been bringing the book to all my classes and tutoring sessions. I recommend this book for those who never felt they got the hang of math as well as people who love it like I do. It is clearly written, very encouraging and has lots of drills.
I love this book and I think that it really will help people feel more confident when they take a test or just are trying to figure the tip.
Beware of duplication July 10, 2007
Anthony Galvin (Ireland)
72 out of 76 found this review helpful
I bought a copy of Secrets of Mental Maths. As a trained scientist and a professional magician I was interested in the contents, and was not disappointed. Great stuff here for impressing people, and useful techniques for making maths fun. However the Amazon website offered two books togehter - this book and another by the same authors; Think Like A Maths Genius. I ordered both, and was shocked when they were delivered. The second book (Think Like A Maths Genius) was just Secrets of Mental Maths with a different cover. Amazon should have known both were the same book and should not have offered them both together. Don't be caught out by this. That aside, I highly recommend buying one or other version of this book.
Entertaining book with very good learning value May 10, 2007
R. Ghai (Hong Kong)
27 out of 30 found this review helpful
Loved this book... it is very entertaining and teaches a lot of good concepts.
A lot of the techniques are not original. But they have been put together very nicely in this book. I bought the other book by Arthur on the same topic (Mathemagics: How to Look Like a Genius Without Really Trying ) and found that a very good addition to my math books. The current book is a much enhanced and cleaned up version of that.
I do part time teaching on Math to High School students and use this book for some good ideas...
While the author seems to be a very good "stage mathematician" and a lot of his explanations try to explain the "show" aspect of the tricks, for a more complete collection of math tricks, I also refer to book by Meyer.
Very recommneded for Math enthusiasts and more for High School students.
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