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 ...

A MAGIC square is an example of a problem which is a particular case of another which from its enunciation may be subjected to mathematical analysis. The n 2 cells of a square of order n may be ...

“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 ...

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 ...

THE author of this volume has evidently devoted much research to the interesting study of magic squares, and though many results of his work were published in Amsterdam in 1931, it is pointed out that ...

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 ...