The Webinar on Mathematical Magic took place on Friday, January 29th, 2021 from 12 pm until 1:30 pm, with the mathemagician Fernando Blasco, President of the Outreach Commission of the Spanish Mathematical Royal Society (RSME), as our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The invited speaker presented several magic tricks and then described the mathematical secrets behind some of these tricks. Some of the tricks that Fernando Blasco performed included guessing the last digit of a bar code, identifying the day of the week given a date, making a magic square, doing a trick with a rope, and many more. The speaker also recommended several books of mathemagic for those who are interested in learning more about this fascinating topic. This virtual event was co-organized with the Spanish Mathematical Royal Society (RSME).
