Directed by The Great Courses

Arthur T. Benjamin

Get a 12-episode introduction to magic tricks using tools like playing cards, numbers, and geometric figures. Popular "mathemagician" and professor Arthur T. Benjamin reveals such fundamentals of the magician's art as the parity principle, lightning calculations, the perfect shuffle, and magic squares. Learn to astonish and delight your family, your friends, and even yourself

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

Mathematical Card Tricks

Episode 2

What's Your Deal?

Episode 3

Look like a Card Shark

Episode 4

The Deck Is Stacked

Episode 5

Perfect Shuffles

Episode 6

Riffle Shuffles

Episode 7

Magic with Numbers

Episode 8

Look like a Genius

Episode 9

The Magic of Nine

Episode 10

Look like a Psychic

Episode 11

Geometric and Topological Magic

Episode 12

Magic Squares