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 ...

A MAGIC square is an example of a problem which is a particular case of another which from its enunciation may be subjected to mathematical analysis. The n 2 cells of a square of order n may be ...

“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 ...

Thirteen-year-old Faizan Ali Mir's inability to solve a mathematics problem last year pushed him to invent a formula for cracking the magic squares. A student at Jawahar Navodhaya Vidhyalaya in ...