The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars
Clifford A. Pickover · 2002
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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 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.
Book details
- Year
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Editions
- 2
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN
- 9780691115979
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