Geometric Magic Squares

Geometric Magic Squares

Author: Lee C.F. Sallows

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-10-03

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0486290026

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This innovative work replaces magic square numbers with two-dimensional forms. The result is a revelation that traditional magic squares are now better seen as the one-dimensional instance of this self-same geometrical activity.


Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares

Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares

Author: Frank Murphy

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2013-05-29

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 0385374615

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A funny, entertaining introduction to Ben Franklin and his many inventions, including the story of how he created the "magic square." A magic square is a box of nine numbers arranged so that any line of three numbers adds up to the same number, including on the diagonal! Teachers and kids will love finding out about this popular teaching tool that is still used in elementary schools today!


The Magic Square

The Magic Square

Author: Alfred Schinz

Publisher: Edition Axel Menges

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 3930698021

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Presents the development of Chinese urbanism. Equipped with source material and maps, this book applies metrological methods. Including about 300 drawings, it gives an overall view of the urban life and culture that existed in the traditional society of late Imperial China.


The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars

The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars

Author: Clifford A. Pickover

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2011-11-28

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1400841518

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Humanity's love affair with mathematics and mysticism reached a critical juncture, legend has it, on the back of a turtle in ancient China. As Clifford Pickover briefly recounts in this enthralling book, the most comprehensive in decades on magic squares, Emperor Yu was supposedly strolling along the Yellow River one day around 2200 B.C. when he spotted the creature: its shell had a series of dots within squares. To Yu's amazement, each row of squares contained fifteen dots, as did the columns and diagonals. When he added any two cells opposite along a line through the center square, like 2 and 8, he always arrived at 10. The turtle, unwitting inspirer of the ''Yu'' square, went on to a life of courtly comfort and fame. Pickover explains why Chinese emperors, Babylonian astrologer-priests, prehistoric cave people in France, and ancient Mayans of the Yucatan were convinced that magic squares--arrays filled with numbers or letters in certain arrangements--held the secret of the universe. Since the dawn of civilization, he writes, humans have invoked such patterns to ward off evil and bring good fortune. Yet who would have guessed that in the twenty-first century, mathematicians would be studying magic squares so immense and in so many dimensions that the objects defy ordinary human contemplation and visualization? Readers are treated to a colorful history of magic squares and similar structures, their construction, and classification along with a remarkable variety of newly discovered objects ranging from ornate inlaid magic cubes to hypercubes. Illustrated examples occur throughout, with some patterns from the author's own experiments. The tesseracts, circles, spheres, and stars that he presents perfectly convey the age-old devotion of the math-minded to this Zenlike quest. Number lovers, puzzle aficionados, and math enthusiasts will treasure this rich and lively encyclopedia of one of the few areas of mathematics where the contributions of even nonspecialists count.


Magic Squares

Magic Squares

Author: Jacques Sesiano

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 3030179931

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The science of magic squares witnessed an important development in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages, with a great variety of construction methods being created and ameliorated. The initial step was the translation, in the ninth century, of an anonymous Greek text containing the description of certain highly developed arrangements, no doubt the culmination of ancient research on magic squares.


The Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy

The Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy

Author: Rosemary Guiley

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1438130007

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A comprehensive illustrated reference guide with more than 400 entries on the subjects of magic and alchemy.