The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars
An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions.
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Word Count
100,000 words, Guess
Page Count
400 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivezenmagicsquaresc00pick
- Internet Archivezenofmagicsquare0000pick
- ISBN-100691070415
- ISBN-139780691070414
- LibraryThing201987
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2001027848
- OCLC Control Number46908147
- Better World Books9780691070414
- Better World BooksP8-BRJ-859
- Open LibraryOL7757614M
Classifications
- LCCQA165.P53 2002
- LCCQA165 .P53 2002
Description
"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 colorful 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."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
When you gaze at magic squares with their amazing properties and hidden symmetries, it's sometimes difficult to believe that there are easy-to-remember ways to construct many of them using simple rules.
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