“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 ...
Magic Squares: A touch of mysticism and a lot of brain-challenging fun! By Marcel Danesi, Ph.D. in Brain Workout One of the most fascinating number games of all time is the magic square. In its ...
IN the interesting discourse reproduced in your issue of March 13 (p. 447), there is a statement that the number of magic squares of order 5 exceeds 60,000. Major MacMahon informs me that he gave ...
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 ...