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Magic Squares

Their History and Construction from Ancient Times to AD 1600

Jacques Sesiano author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:29th May '19

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The science of magic squares witnessed an important development in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages, with a great variety of construction methods being created and ameliorated. The initial step was the translation, in the ninth century, of an anonymous Greek text containing the description of certain highly developed arrangements, no doubt the culmination of ancient research on magic squares.

“This is certainly a definitive comprehensive treatise on the history of magic squares from their known beginnings to 1600. There is a wealth of material, containing methods of construction as well as individual magic squares, including bordered and pandiagonal magic squares, that is astonishing.” (Victor V. Pambuccian, zbMATH 1422.01002, 2019)

ISBN: 9783030179922

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313 pages

1st ed. 2019