Download or read book The Zen of Magic Squares Circles and Stars written by Clifford A. Pickover and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Most perfect Pandiagonal Magic Squares written by Kathleen Ollerenshaw and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Recreations with Magic Squares written by William H. Benson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares written by Frank Murphy and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!
Download or read book Magic Squares of Order 3 written by Subramanian Venkatachalam and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic squares play a very important role in "Recreational Mathematics". They have been known in India and China for over 3000 years. Later, the knowledge of magic squares was carried by Arabs to the West. In this book we discuss the simplest and first odd order (3X3) magic squares. It is a square matrix consisting of numbers such that the sum of the elements of each row, column and diagonal is the same, called the magic sum. Semi and hetero squares, calendar magic squares, alphamagic squares and palindromic magic squares find a place in the book. Apart from additive magic squares, multiplicative magic squares are also important. Here, the products of the different elements of each row, column and diagonal are considered instead of addition. The book ends with quiz and questions. People curious about numbers will enjoy the beauty of magic squares even with little mathematical knowledge.
Download or read book Magic Squares and Cubes written by Paul Carus and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Magic Squares written by Paul Calter and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geometric Magic Squares written by Lee C.F. Sallows and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Magic Squares and Cubes written by William Symes Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Magic Squares written by Jacques Sesiano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Magic Squares in the Tenth Century written by Jacques Sesiano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the texts and translations of two Arabic treatises on magic squares, which are undoubtedly the most important testimonies on the early history of that science. It is divided into the three parts: the first and most extensive is on tenth-century construction methods, the second is the translations of the texts, and the third contains the original Arabic texts, which date back to the tenth century.
Download or read book Legacy of the Luoshu written by Frank Swetz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A symbol of the Divine, a good luck charm, a cosmogram of the world order, a template for fengshui-through the ages, the luoshu, or magic squre of order three, has fascinated people of many different cultures. In this riveting account of cultural detective work, renowned mathematics educator, Frank J. Swetz relates how he uncovered the previously h
Download or read book Magic Squares written by John Lee Fults and published by Open Court Publishing Company. This book was released on 1974 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Before Sudoku written by Seymour S. Block and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of sudoku may not know that the game is a recent offshoot of the venerable Magic Square, which dates back more than 4,000 years to ancient China. This book provides a delightful account of the mind-boggling variety possible with magical squares.
Download or read book Unsolved Problems in Number Theory written by Richard Guy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second edition sold 2241 copies in N.A. and 1600 ROW. New edition contains 50 percent new material.
Download or read book Magic Squares written by Clarity Media and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to this fantastic collection of 100 magic square puzzles! Looking for a brain-teasing challenge? Look no further! Magic squares provide two key pieces of information for every puzzle; the sum of the numbers in each row, column and the two diagonals, and secondly the range of numbers that will feature, so 15-30 for example. With this information, you must completely fill the grid using the numbers already given in place. Can you complete all 100? If you get a little stuck along the way, solutions are featured towards the back of the book so take a peek there! All of our puzzle books are printed on very high quality paper, perfect for notes and scribbles! For other puzzle books, visit us at www.puzzle-book.co.uk
Download or read book More Magic Square Methods and Tricks written by James Solberg and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
