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This is the most comprehensive and exciting book in many decades on magic squares—arrays filled with numbers or letters in particular arrangements. Clifford Pickover offers a colourful history of these and similar structures, their construction, and classification along with a remarkable variety of newly discovered objects ranging from ornate inlaid magic cubes to hypercubes. He explains why Chinese emperors, Babylonian astrologer-priests, prehistoric cave people in France, and ancient Mayans of the Yucatan were convinced that magic squares held the secret of the universe. Illustrated examples occur throughout, with some patterns from the author’s own experiments. The tesseracts, circles, spheres, and stars that he present perfectly convey the age-old devotion of the math-minded to this Zenlike quest.
ISBN-9788173714665
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Pages : 432
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