The zen of magic squares, circles and stars : an exhibition of surprising structures across dimensions
"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
Print Book, English, 2003
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 2003
Puzzles and games
xx, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780691070414, 9780691115979, 0691070415, 0691115974
1242947940
Magic construction
Classification
Gallery I : squares, cubes, and tesseracts
Gallery 2: circles and spheres
Gallery 3: stars, hexagons, and other beauties