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These simple math secrets and tricks will forever change how you look at the world of numbers.

Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a math genius in no time. Get ready to amaze your friends—and yourself—with incredible calculations you never thought you could master, as renowned “mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin shares his techniques for lightning-quick calculations and amazing number tricks. This book will teach you to do math in your head faster than you ever thought possible, dramatically improve your memory for numbers, and—maybe for the first time—make mathematics fun.

Yes, even you can learn to do seemingly complex equations in your head; all you need to learn are a few tricks. You’ll be able to quickly multiply and divide triple digits, compute with fractions, and determine squares, cubes, and roots without blinking an eye. No matter what your age or current math ability, Secrets of Mental Math will allow you to perform fantastic feats of the mind effortlessly. This is the math they never taught you in school.



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Wish I'd learned this before.
I'm 22 years old, and I can't even count the times the information in this book would have been useful to me in the past. Hell, I just started reading it and I'm already using these techniques to prepare for standardized tests. Any science or math student should commit these techniques to heart. I honestly believe they should be a required part of elementary school curriculum and the only reason I can think of why they aren't already is that teachers don't know of them! This book is worth a hundred times the price it costs for the value of the skills it will give you. Buy it!

A masterpiece
I got this book in '08 and I still haven't had time to memorize the techniques. The only reason I can't do a lot of this book is because I haven't memorized my timetables but other than that if I knew my times tables than I would be able to do the techniques in this book. Also what they don't say is that these techniques originate in ancient India.

pazer335
Whiles I haven't completed this book yet because I have 2 others that I've been comparing. This one is certainly the most outstanding and interesting. I believe if one stays with this book and do the exercises provided there will be hardly any mental math problems you can't solve. I'm talking addition subtraction multipling and division.The book is well written and narrated so you can easily understand whats being presented;all you have to do is follow theinstructions and do the exercises. Again a great book to help you improve or master your math efficiency!

Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks

Great Book But Kindle Version Needs Improvement
I have bought a number of different books like this to find different ways to help my 14 year old who struggles with arithmetic and is falling behind in school as a consequence. I find this to be the best of them because it has all of the techniques found in other books in one place.The light hearted presentation is really great and the author really helps by suggesting ways to think e.g. How to talk in your head.More importantly, the techniques appeal to my kid and he is making progress.

My only beef is with the kindle edition. No hyperlinks between exercises and corresponding answers plus the examples are presented as images so they don't increase in size when you choose a different text size for reading.I think Kindle editions should take steps to exploit the different medium and not just replicate the hardcopy.You can zoom in on those images but it is cumbersome. If you don't absolutely need the ebook I recommend choosing the hardcopy version. On a positive note the kindle edition does not appear to be plagued with copious spelling errors like so many other titles.

Great Book
I know most of the the basic Math problems and how to solve them using a calculator but I needed a refresher before going back to school.

After seeing those 5-8 year old kids on T.V. doing math in their head I kinda though it was cool.

Those kids are going to be successful and maybe I can learn also?

Well, I bought both of the top selling books on Amazon regarding shortcut to math.

I'm that type of person that can't stand prolong reading and want to learn everything now!

I bought this book as a back-up and the the other book with the less pages as my main choice.

Well fortunate for me I bought this book because the other book with the shorter pages expected me to know everything about math and dove straight into the deep end.

I actually started to drown.

Not only that, but it was not an enjoyable read at all.It was like going back to school which put me off learning Math to begin with.

I kind of knew it wouldn't be all fun and games but it couldn't be this hard right?

Well it's not.This book is pleasant and fun to read. Everything is laid-out.

This book covers it all from start to finish.It's very easy to follow and I never felt challenged once. Everything is step by step and at you're own pace with good instruction and examples.

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By transforming math "problems" into games, this easy-to-follow book gives parents a fun way to help their children learn math.With an expanded section on problem solving, fun word problems, and entertaining visual concepts, it proves that math can be interesting. ... Read more

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Kind of helpful
As the book suggests, the book is geared for parents who want to teach their children math.It might be a good system for a home-school parent, but I find that since my 6 year old daughter is in 1st grade the lessons are going to be a tad different from what she's learning in school.Since she's having a hard time as it is, I don't want to confuse her further.

The book starts with some really basic sorting and describing games. It was really funny when I held the cat on my lap and asked my two children what I was holding and why it was a cat. They both liked that.But when I went on to ask them to describe a ball as suggested by the author they lost interest. I tried the same game later with my 4 year old son and a few different cups, but he became bored almost immediatly and told me he wanted to play that game "later".Not helpful.

I wonder if this book wouldn't be better had it been created as a workbook.The author assumes you have access to a photocopy machine to copy the pages in the book. Somehow I don't think photocopied, black and white drawings of pigs are really going to get my already-not-interested-in-math child interested in math.

I'm not sure if the author has children or has worked with children.It might just be that the author is used to working with kids who already like math and find it interesting. Or maybe his enthusiasm for math is contagious in person. I don't know. I do know that my own enthusiasm for math is minimal.I was hoping to find a book that would get both me and my kids into math. It hasn't inspired me and the excersises don't seem to be exciting my children. So if you don't find math all that interesting, and if the kids you're trying to teach are having a hard time with math, then this book probably won't be very helpful.

More for the older child
I bought this book for my 5 year old- to get many fun ideas on how to introduce math to her, but was disappointed to find that only the first two chapters are devoted to that age group. It is more geared towards the 2nd grader and up. So until I can find a better book, we are just counting shells, beans and whatnot,adding and subtracting.

What a great idea
I read this book because, although I don't have any kids yet, I want to do some substitute teaching this spring.I thought I might be able to capture some of the fun that math games can entail.This book does the job.Bear in mind, these exercises are for YOUNGER children, up to 3rd grade or so.The authors are full of ideas, and seem to have a grasp both of child psychology, and the trials of parenting.The parenting part doesn't apply to me at this point, but I hope to be able to pass on some of the fun spirit these guys infuse their book with.

Hey, whoever is reading this -- you might want to think about sharing this book with someone in your life who couldn't afford it, when you're finished getting ideas from it.Or even more than one person -- go on a parenting listserv and talk about the book, and pass the word along.Maybe you have a poor cleaning woman who comes to your house, and only speaks Spanish.You could try to share a few of the games with her, if she has kids, and show her how her kids might benefit if she played these games with them.Think about it.It can only help. ... Read more

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Mathematics is the science of patterns, and mathematicians attempt to understand these patterns and discover new ones using a variety of tools. In Proofs That Really Count, award-winning math professors Arthur Benjamin and Jennifer Quinn demonstrate that many number patterns, even very complex ones, can be understood by simple counting arguments. The book emphasizes numbers that are often not thought of as numbers that count: Fibonacci Numbers, Lucas Numbers, Continued Fractions, and Harmonic Numbers, to name a few. Numerous hints and references are given for all chapter exercises and many chapters end with a list of identities in need of combinatorial proof. The extensive appendix of identities will be a valuable resource. This book should appeal to readers of all levels, from high school math students to professional mathematicians. ... Read more

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easy to understand and full of insights
The proofs in this book are easy enough for a bright high schooler or even an exceptional middle schooler to understand, while still making use of insightful tricks that keep the solutions far from being obvious.

Winner of the 2006 Mathematical Association of America Beckenbach Book Prize
"Thoroughly engaging... Accessible to a very broad audience... While the theorems covered may not be new to research mathematicians, I would wager that very few of us have seen them proven in quite this way." -- American Mathematical Monthly [http://www.maa.org/reviews/reallycount.html]

I am not a mathematician and I learn something cool and useful from this book every few paragraphs. Highly recommended.

Outstanding exposition
I was introduced to this book by a talk that one of the authors (Arthur Benjamin) gave at the MAA Mathfest in Albuquerque in August of 2005.The talk was one of the very best mathematics talks that I've ever attended.Everyone in the audience could follow what was going on, and we all left with an understanding of the basic approach to combinatorial identities used in this book.The authors' approach is to prove combinatorial identities by defining a quantity and then obtaining different formulas for that quantity.One formula becomes the left hand side of an identity while another formula becomes the right hand side.

When I read the book I found that it was just as clearly written, with lots of beautiful examples.

Lovely author
I haven't read this book yet, but I have a signed copy after seeing Jenny Quinn speak at the 2005 meeting of the Northwest chapter of the Mathmatics Association of America.If her written work is anything like her speaking, then this should be a great book.Her combinatorial proofs are an interesting approach to old equations, and she presents them in a very clear manner.A most enthusiastic lady. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:IllThe SybariteWE found the Novella Beauty Parlour on the top floor of an office-building just off Fifth Avenue on a side street not far from Forty-second Street. A special elevator, elaborately fitted up, wafted us up with express speed. As the door opened we saw a vista of dull-green lattices, little gateways hung with roses, windows of diamond-paned glass set in white wood, rooms with little white enamelled manicure-tables and chairs, amber lights glowing with soft incandescence in deep bowers of fireproof tissue flowers. There was a delightful warmth about the place, and the seductive scents and delicate odours betokened the haunt of the twentieth-century Sybarite.Both O'Connor and Leslie, strangely out of place in the enervating luxury of the now deserted beauty- parlour, were still waiting for Kennedy with a grim determination."A most peculiar thing," whispered O'Connor, dashing forward the moment the elevator door opened. fWe can't seem to find a single cause for her death. The people up here say it was a suicide, but I never accept the theory of suicide unless there are undoubted proofs. So far there have been none in this case. There was no reason for it/'Seated in one of the large easy-chairs of the reception-room, in a corner with two of O'Connor's men standing watchfully near, was a man who was the embodiment of all that was nervous. He was alternately wringing his hands and rumpling his hair. Beside him was a middle-sized, middle-aged lady in a most amazing state of preservation, who evidently presided over the cosmetic mysteries beyond the male ken. She was so perfectly groomed that she looked as though her clothes were a mould into which she had literally been poured."Professor and Madame Millefleur—otherwise Miller,"—whispered O'Connor, noti... ... Read more

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Politics was in Benjamin Harrison's blood. His great-grandfather signed the Declaration and his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, was the ninth president of the United States. Harrison, a leading Indiana lawyer, became a Republican Party champion, even taking a leave from the Civil War to campaign for Lincoln. After a scandal-free term in the Senate-no small feat in the Gilded Age-the Republicans chose Harrison as their presidential candidate in 1888. Despite losing the popular vote, he trounced the incumbent, Grover Cleveland, in the electoral college. ... Read more

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Another brief bio in the American President series
The American Presidents series is a nice set of short bios of many of our Presidents. Most are well done, providing brief entree to the lives and performance of our chief executive. This volume examines Benjamin Harrison, the grandson of President William Henry Harrison and one of those who became president while winning fewer popular votes than his opponent.

The book begins with his youth and his Civil War experience. He was one of the many Republican presidents in the latter part of the 19th century who had served during that bloody conflict. He entered the bar in 1854 and married Caroline. His law business languished; he became interested in politics. Thus began his career, although he was not always successful in his elections. The war intervened, and Harrison became an officer. After the war, his legal career became lucrative. However, politics beckoned and he became a figure in Republican politics in Indiana.

He served in a variety of roles, before being nominated for President in 1888. He won by collecting more electoral votes--but fewer popular votes--than the incumbent, Grover Cleveland. His presidency was a vigorous one--both domestically and in terms of foreign policy. He hewed to a strong tariff policy, but one made more flexible for bilateral negotiation with other countries. He was open toward labor and was dismayed by the withdrawal of voting rights for southern blacks and fought hard (and, in the end, unsuccessfully) to address that and restore voting rights. In foreign policy, with James G. Blaine as his secretary of State, he played a strong hand, becoming very much involved in development and implementation of foreign policy.

He did not triumph in his quest for reelection, as Grover Cleveland won back the presidency. Thereafter, he became once more a high profile attorney. The book does a nice job of depicting his final years and some internal family turmoil.

Another good entry in the series. For me, I prefer longer and more detailed biographies, but this will serve well those who prefer something accessible and brief.

A shining example of what courage can do
Sadly for Benjamin Harrison he is either remembered for being sandwiched by Grover Cleveland or for being the grandson of a president. Charles Calhoun does a great service by demonstrating how Harrison was a hands on, hardworking individual who did more in one term than Cleveland did in two. He is presented as the rare break in the laize-faire Presidents of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries who dared not to buck the power of congress.

Calhoun does a remarkable job demonstrating that Harrison is a man who worked for all he got in life and never took anything for granted. He was the last president until JFK to pay more than lip service to African-American and he was aman who while holding to his beliefs, was fair minded enough to try and see the other side.In some sense it is a shame that he never served that second term. It would be easy to see he could have done better than Cleveland.

Activist President in a Contentious Political Era
Benjamin Harrison, like several other presidents during the post-reconstruction, gilded age, served only four years as president. He was also only one of three presidents--the second at that time--to win election while losing the popular vote to Grover Cleveland in 1888. He was nonetheless a rather activist chief executive, securing important, or at least controversial, passage of legislation addressing the tariff, the currency, and regulation of the emerging corporate "Trusts". Harrison also endeavored, less successfully, to pass more robust election reform for African Americans in the South. While seeking the maintenance of a protective tariff for American industry and laborers, Harrison nonetheless also sought lower barriers for some imports as a means of increasing the country's exports. This limited "free trade" reciprocity with the countries of Latin America was rescinded by Grover Cleveland and the congress that succeeded Harrison, but serves as a model, for good or for ill, of the more globally oriented country and economy that would reflect later years and presidents.

Harrison's legislative and executive activism, combined with sectional and economic divisions, however, spelled doom for Harrison's, and the Republican Party's, fortunes in the off-year elections of 1890 when the Democratic Party swept to landslide control of congress. While Harrison successfully fought off the mechanizations of long time Republican leader and his own Secretary of State James G. Blaine for renomination in 1892, Harrison went on to not only lose the presidential contest to the man he had defeated four years earlier, Grover Cleveland, but also lost his wife, Caroline, to complications from Tuberculosis, weeks before election day. Harrison's last two years in office witnessed the infamous killing of Indians at Wounded Knee, which ultimately proved to be the closing event of the Indian Wars. In Harrison's final months, the economic elite--including American business owners--revolted against the royalty who governed the Hawaian islands, spawning the Harrison administration to prepare for the annexation of the future 50th state. The annexation of Hawaii was negated by Cleveland and the new congress, however, when concerns over American involvement in the "revolution" surfaced.

Harrison returned, but did not retire to, his family home in Indianapolis, where the former president again took up the practice of law. As an attorney, Harrison represented the Latin American country of Venezuela in a losing cause with Great Britain over the proper delineation of the former colony's land boundaries. Harrison did not go out gracefully in a political sense. He resented his eventual Republican successor, William McKinley, for having allowed himself to be nominated in 1892 at the Republican convention. Harrison also later opposed McKinley's policies in the Phillipines and American expansion (despite his administration's support for annexing Hawaii) policies more generally, and after 1893, did not campaign actively for his party or its presidential candidates. Nor did Harrison go out gracefully on the domestic front, at least from the persective of his two children, as the former president remarried his late wife's niece, Mary "Mamie" Dimmick, who had long served as an aid and companion to Harrison while his wife Caroline lived (although no valid evidence existed of an affair between the two during those years). The marriage alienated Harrison from his son Russel and daughter Mary. Harrison had another daughter, Elizabeth, through Mamie but would die five years later, in 1901, from pneomonia.

Calhoun does a good job bringing Benjamin Harrison and his times to life, portraying the post-reconstruction, gilded age as more politically intriguing and contested than normally regarded, at least in comparison to the ideological struggles of the Civil War era that preceded it and the progressive-New Deal era that succeeded it. Calhoun could probably have provided greater insight, particularly as to its geographical aspect, on the electoral upheaval in 1890 when the Democratic Party returned to power in greater numbers than it had witnessed since the time of Andrew Jackson. But Harrison's evaluation of the electoral results--that they represented more of a hyccup in electoral fortunes than a long term realignment--ended up being born out by the equally cataclasmic Republican victories in 1894 and 1896 and the long Republican hegemony from McKinley to Taft.

A little known activist President
I learned something from this book.I did not actually know too much about Ben Harrison but this short biography sure did teach me something about him.Harrison was a one term President who actually accomplished something in his four years.He fought the free silver coinage act, passed the Sherman antitrust act, lowered tariffs, but did not extinguish them, and worked for voting rights for black Americans.He also did alot of his own foreign relations, since his Secretary of State Blaine was constantly ill.He was a diligent hard worker who would shame some of our lazier presidents.

Due to all this activism, Harrison lost the mid term Congressional elections, and ultimately his office.He didn't seem to mind, because he thought he would be happier back home in Indianapolis.I enjoyed the author talking about Harrison's personal life.He married again after he left the White House.A nice biography of a little known President.

BH
BH and I share the same fraternity, so he is high on my list.Brief book, but a great example of a President overlooked due to his era. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:THE SOUL-ANALYSIS'here's the most remarkable appeal/ observed Kennedy, one morning, as he tossed over to me a letter. ' What do you make of that ?' It read :—Montrose, Conn. My Dear Professor Kennedy,—You do not know me, but I have heard a great deal about you. Please, I beg of you, do not disregard this letter. At least try to verify the appeal I am making.I am here at the Belleclaire Sanatorium, run by Doctor Bolton Burr, in Montrose. But it is not a real sanatorium. It is really a private asylum.Let me tell my story briefly. After my baby was born, 1 devoted myself to it. But, in spite of everything, it died. Meanwhile, my husband neglected me terribly. After the baby's death I was a nervous wreck, and I came up here to rest.Now I find I am being held here as an insane patient. I cannot get out. I do not even know whether this letter will reach you. But the chambermaid here has told me she will post it for me.I am ill and nervous—a wreck, but not insane, although they will tell you that the twilight-sleep treatment affected my mind. But what is happening here will eventually drive me insane if some one does not come to my rescue.Cannot you get in to see me as a doctor or friend? I will leave all to you after that. Yours anxiously,Janet (mrs Roger) Cranston.'What do you make of it yourself?' I returned, handing back the letter. ' Are you going to take it up?'He slowly looked over the letter again.'Judging by the handwriting,' he remarked thoughtfully, 'I should say that the writer is labouring under keen excitement-—though there is no evidence of insanity on the face of it. Yes; I think I'll take up the case.'' But how are you going to get in?' I asked. 'They'll never admit you willingly.'Kennedy pondered a minute.'I'll... ... Read more

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Many have sought the Holy Grail, and many have failed. Now the Muppets present some very good reasons why, as they recount the fantastic quest of King Arthur and his Muppets of the Round Table! This classic tale of adventure, romance, and magic is told once again, but this time with more frogs, chickens, bears, and Whatnots than you can shake Excalibur at! In the words of Fozzie, it will be a "knight" to remember! Features a cover gallery with art from David Petersen, the Eisner Award-winning creator of Mouse Guard! ... Read more

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Muppet King Arthur
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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1915Original Publisher: HarperSubjects: Detective and mystery storiesShort storiesChildren's literatureFiction / Mystery ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Truly Tells the Shaping of Franklin
I passed over Tourtellot's book the first time around--he seemed to pack a lot of extraneous stuff in his book.But then I looked deeper and found it to be both profound and convincing. He truly does deliver what he promises in his book title: Benjamin Franklin, The Shaping of Genius, The Boston Years. For example, in the chapter on The Emergence of Silence Dogood, the author not only describes the writing style Franklin developed for his character but gives side-by-side examples of similarities with Addison's The Spectator, Checkley in The Courant and Franklin in Dogood, No. 1.So if you want to understand more deeply how Franklin developed as he did in those early Boston years, you cannot do better than to immerse yourself in Tourtellot's fine book. Lu Ann Darling, author of Discover Your Mentoring Mosaic, A Guide to Enhanced Mentoring ... Read more

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Using proven techniques, this volume shows how to add, subtract, multiply and divide faster than is possible with a calculator or pencil and paper, and helps readers conquer their nervousness about math. ... Read more

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Awesome book!
After seeing Dr. Benjamin perform in Las Vegas at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics conference in 2002, I bought this book and also his Mathemagics course.My middle school students love it!Many of them prefer to do mental calculations when possible and they love when I do mathematic magic tricks on them.Better, they love the algebraic explanations and can't wait to use the tricks on their friends and family, knowing that they can explain the trick as well.
My college students are amazed when I can square a 2-digit number quicker than they can punch it in on a calculator.(I'm not too fast at the 3 digit numbers; it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks!)
I highly recommend this book for math teachers, school libraries, students, or anyone at all!

One path to learning mathematics
Ambivalence surrounds me when I attempt to review this book. As someone who learned arithmetic in the pre-calculator days, many of the ideas in this book bring back deep memories. One of my favorite things to do when in my teen years and later was to keep track of the items in the grocery cart and estimate the total cost. It was considered a failure when the guess and true total differed by more than $0.25. While this skill did succeed in amazing people, I cannot recall a single instance where it actually was financially beneficial. And eventually I gave it up, going on to mathematics and computers.
But those days are gone, and calculators (computers) do free the mind for other things. So the question becomes, is it beneficial to read books of this type and learn the "lost" art of estimation? The history of mathematics informs us that early mental manipulation of numbers is a strong indicator of the future development of mathematical ability. Gauss and Hardy are two excellent examples of this. However, in later years Hardy in particular looked down on those who were mere number crunchers.
Which leads to the clearest use for the techniques demonstrated in this book, namely to instruct children in the mental manipulation of symbols. By having young minds compete against a calculator, mental techniques are developed that most likely cannot be created any other way. And those methods are excellent training for future careers in the quantitative sciences. And this book does an excellent job in introducing these "tricks." All are clearly explained and detailed solutions to the problems are in the back of the book. Anyone wishing to learn how to perform efficient mental computations will find what they are looking for.
If your goal is to teach or learn how to perform calculations in your head, then this book is for you. However, one should make an effort to keep everything in perspective. The ability to perform mental arithmetic should be considered as a step toward mathematical ability and not a stand-alone indicator of such skill.

(Published in "Journal of Recreational Mathematics" - reprinted with permission.)

Una pequeña joya
He encontrado el libro muy útil , entretenido , y facil de leer.
Muy recomendable para iniciarse en el cálculo mental.

Una pequeña joya
He encontrado el libro muy útil , entretenido , y facil de leer.
Muy recomendable para iniciarse en el cálculo mental.

Truly amazing
A truly amazing insight into various ways to mystify others with seemingly impossible mathematical challenges. Learn how to determine the day someone was born on, or guess the missing number in the answer to a multiplication problem. This book provides you with insight to the fun (yes... fun) side of math. You will be greatly impressed by the tricks to amaze your friends and make math interesting ... Read more

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In Biscuits of Number Theory, the editors have chosen articles that are exceptionally well-written and that can be appreciated by anyone who has taken (or is taking) a first course in number theory. This book could be used as a textbook supplement for a number theory course, especially one that requires students to write papers or do outside reading. The editors give examples of some of the possibilities.

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1888Original Publisher: C. H. EdsonSubjects: SalesPersonal propertyNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: [5] -CHAPTER II.OF THE PARTIES TO THE CONTRACT.SECTION I. WHO MAV SELL.PAGEIn general, none but owner . . 6 Effect of outstanding writ on owner's power to sell .... 6Exceptions to general rule . . 7Market overt 7Exceptions 8Sale by sample 8Purchase by shopkeeper inLondon 9Stolen goods when felon isprosecuted 9Case of false pretences . . 10 Reimbursement of innocent purchaser 11Sale, horses in market overt, 12Negotiable securities .... 13Goods pawned 14Goods taken by sheriffs ... 16Goods in wrecked ships ... 15Factors and consignees ... 15 Agent entrusted in and with possession 16Persons entrusted with posses- sion by owner 19 Law doubtful ...... 19SECTION II. -- WHO MAT BCY.PAGEPersons generally incompetent . 22Infants 22Necessaries 23Question of fact or law ? . 26Married infant 27Infant tradesman .... 27Ratification after majority . 29Infants' Relief Act, 1874 . 30Lunatics 31Drunkards .32Married women: -- 1. At common law .... 32Husband civiliter mor-tuus 33Husband alien abroad . 33Sole trader in London . 352. In equity 353. By statute 36Protection order ... 36 Property Acts', 1870 and 1874 36Property Act, 1882 . . 37§ 5. So far as the general capacity to contract is concerned, and the rules of law relating to persons either totally incompetent to contract, or protected from liability by reason of infancy, coverture, and the like causes, the reader must be referred to treatises which embrace the subject of contracts in general. Suc... ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1883.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more