Magic Squares: A touch of mysticism and a lot of brain-challenging fun! By Marcel Danesi, Ph.D. in Brain Workout One of the most fascinating number games of all time is the magic square. In its ...

“In my younger days, having once some leisure which I still think I might have employed more usefully, I had amused myself in making . . . magic squares,” Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) wrote in a ...

IT is rather difficult to describe this little book. It is in no sense a systematic discussion of the construction of magic squares. Rather it consists of a series of examples to show how, by the ...

An ancient mathematical puzzle that has fascinated mathematicians for centuries has found a new lease of life. The magic square is the basis for Sudoku, pops up in Chinese legend and provides a ...

Only in the last five years has sudoku been capturing people’s recreational time. But 250 years ago, Benjamin Franklin was developing fascinating puzzles with principles quite similar to sudoku, ...

The magic of mathematics is particularly reflected in magic squares. Recently, quantum physicists and mathematicians introduced the notion of the quantum magic square, and for the first time studied ...