₹200.00
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Card magic is a fascinating blend of mathematics, psychology, and performance art. In this short course, we’ll explore some fundamental principles of card magic, focusing on mathematical techniques that create seemingly impossible effects. While the focus will be on self-working tricks and the math that drives them, we will also cover the practical and presentation aspects of card magic.
Prof. Ramprasad Saptharishi is a faculty member in the School of Technology and Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).
He completed his Ph.D. under the guidance of Manindra Agrawal from Chennai Mathematical Institute. Following his Ph.D., he was a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research India for a year, hosted by Neeraj Kayal and Satya Lokam. Subsequently, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University hosted by Amir Shpilka before joining TIFR.
His academic interests are in pseudorandomness and derandomization, algebraic circuit complexity, and broadly anything with an algebraic flavour. He also happens to be a connoisseur and performer of card magic!
This course is open to anyone interested in magic, mathematics, or both!
No prior experience with card magic is required.
Participants should bring a standard deck of playing cards.
If you are at IIT Gandhinagar, sign up through our short course mechanism.
We will shortly post a link to a WhatsApp group that you can join to stay up to date on proceedings.
Session 1: Introduction to Card Magic
We’ll start with the basics of card handling and some fundamental mathematical principles that underlie many card tricks. Topics include shuffle tracking, the Gilbreath principle, and basic probability in card magic.
Session 2: Self-Working Card Tricks
We now demonstrate some concrete card tricks that leverage the principles we have seen so far. These tricks work automatically without sleight of hand. We’ll work out how the principles from before support the magic in these tricks.
Session 3: More Shuffles
Explore more shuffle invariants, learn about De-Bruijn sequences, and pick up some new tricks.
Session 4: Make it Your Own
Practice the tricks you have learned so far and challenge yourself to design new tricks based on the principles you have learned so far.
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