title: Mathemagics: How to Look Like a Genius Without Really Trying
author:  Arthur Benjamin 
description: Amaze and mystify your friends! Benjamin has performed his "art of rapid mental calculation" for audiences of all ages and levels of mathematical sophistication, and now he reveals his secrets to you. Actually, most of these calculation and memorization techniques are fairly commonly known, but Benjamin explains how to perform them to great effect. He uses simple algebraic proofs to show how the tricks work and often adds an anecdote about how he "discovered" an interesting trick. This is a book to ignite mathematical confidence and curiosity. A word of warning, though: despite the subtitle, it will take some dedicated practice to master these tricks. For most collections.<br /><i>- Amy Brunvand, Fort Lewis Coll. Lib., Durango, Col.</i><br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # Heine and Mathilde
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Richard Le Gallienne
  
  
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  The love story of Heine and his Mathilde is another of those stories
  
  
  which fix a type of loving. It is the love of a man of the most
  
  
  brilliant genius, the most relentless, mocking intellect, for a
  
  
  simple, pretty woman, who could no more understand him than a cow can
  
  
  understand a comet. Many men of genius have loved just such women,
  
  
  and the world, of course, has wondered. How is it that men of genius
  
  
  prefer some little Mathilde, when the presidents of so many women's
  
  
  clubs are theirs for the asking? Perhaps the problem is not so
  
  
  difficult as, at first sight, it may seem. After all, a man of
  
  
  genius is much like other men. He is no more anxious than any other
  
  
  man to marry an encyclopedia, or a university degree. And, more than
  
  
  most men, he is fitted to realize the mysterious importa