The Zen of magic squares, circles, and stars : an exhibition of surprising structures across dimensions / Clifford A. Pickover.
"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 vari...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2002]
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| Summary: | "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. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 395) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0691070415 9780691070414 |