IT is rather difficult to describe this little book. It is in no sense a systematic discussion of the construction of magic squares. Rather it consists of a series of examples to show how, by the ...

The magic of mathematics is particularly reflected in magic squares. Recently, quantum physicists and mathematicians introduced the notion of the quantum magic square, and for the first time studied ...

For thousands of years people have played with magic squares—arrays of distinct numbers whose rows, columns and diagonals add to the same total.* A simple 3-by-3 array that sums to 15 every which way ...

The study of magic squares has a long, long history. In ancient Babylonian times, these array of numbers were held to have magical powers. Over the years, they have also served as protective charms ...

“In my younger days, having once some leisure which I still think I might have employed more usefully, I had amused myself in making . . . magic squares,” Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) wrote in a ...

The magic square is the basis for Sudoku, pops up in Chinese legend and provides a playful way to introduce children to arithmetic. But all this time it has been concealing a more complex geometrical ...

MAGIC SQUARES having certain properties were known to the ancients. In modern times they have been studied by mathematicians since Albrecht Diirer's celebrated magic square picture of 1514. A magic ...

Magic squares belong to the imagination of humanity for a long time. The oldest known magic square comes from China and is over 2000 years old. One of the most famous magic squares can be found in ...