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Author : William H. Benson,Oswald Jacoby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UOM:39015014351418
Author : Lee C. F. Sallows
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486489094
Traditional magic squares employ a chessboard-like arrangement of numbers in which the total of all rows, columns, and diagonals add up to the same number. This innovative approach by a Dutch engineer challenges puzzlists to think two dimensionally by replacing numbers with colorful geometric shapes. Dozens of creative puzzles, suitable for ages 12 and up.
Author : William H. Benson,Oswald Jacoby
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486241408
No advanced mathematical knowledge to construct these three-dimensional mind bogglers; including pandiagonal and perfect cubes ? many entirely new constructions, too. 111 figures.
Author : Clifford A. Pickover
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-28
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781400841516
Humanity's love affair with mathematics and mysticism reached a critical juncture, legend has it, on the back of a turtle in ancient China. As Clifford Pickover briefly recounts in this enthralling book, the most comprehensive in decades on magic squares, Emperor Yu was supposedly strolling along the Yellow River one day around 2200 B.C. when he spotted the creature: its shell had a series of dots within squares. To Yu's amazement, each row of squares contained fifteen dots, as did the columns and diagonals. When he added any two cells opposite along a line through the center square, like 2 and 8, he always arrived at 10. The turtle, unwitting inspirer of the ''Yu'' square, went on to a life of courtly comfort and fame. Pickover explains why Chinese emperors, Babylonian astrologer-priests, prehistoric cave people in France, and ancient Mayans of the Yucatan were convinced that magic squares--arrays filled with numbers or letters in certain arrangements--held the secret of the universe. Since the dawn of civilization, he writes, humans have invoked such patterns to ward off evil and bring good fortune. Yet who would have guessed that in the twenty-first century, mathematicians would be studying magic squares so immense and in so many dimensions that the objects defy ordinary human contemplation and visualization? Readers are treated to a colorful history of magic squares and similar structures, their construction, and classification along with a remarkable variety of newly discovered objects ranging from ornate inlaid magic cubes to hypercubes. Illustrated examples occur throughout, with some patterns from the author's own experiments. The tesseracts, circles, spheres, and stars that he presents perfectly convey the age-old devotion of the math-minded to this Zenlike quest. Number lovers, puzzle aficionados, and math enthusiasts will treasure this rich and lively encyclopedia of one of the few areas of mathematics where the contributions of even nonspecialists count.
Author : M K Joseph
Publisher : Universities Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8173714665
Author : Morris Philip
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Machine knitting
ISBN : CORNELL:31924064150737
Author : William Symes Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Magic cubes
ISBN : OSU:32435002214864
Author : Frank Swetz
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781439865323
A symbol of the Divine, a good luck charm, a cosmogram of the world order, a template for fengshui-through the ages, the luoshu, or magic squre of order three, has fascinated people of many different cultures. In this riveting account of cultural detective work, renowned mathematics educator, Frank J. Swetz relates how he uncovered the previously h
Author : Jean-Luc Chabert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783642181924
The development of computing has reawakened interest in algorithms. Often neglected by historians and modern scientists, algorithmic procedures have been instrumental in the development of fundamental ideas: practice led to theory just as much as the other way round. The purpose of this book is to offer a historical background to contemporary algorithmic practice.
Author : Seymour S. Block,Santiago Alves Tavares
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131763257
Fans of sudoku may not know that the game is a recent offshoot of the venerable Magic Square, which dates back more than 4,000 years to ancient China. This book provides a delightful account of the mind-boggling variety possible with magical squares.
Author : Frank J. Swetz
Publisher : Walch Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 0825122643
Biographies of 23 important mathematicians span many centuries and cultures. Historical Learning Tasks provide 21 in-depth treatments of a variety of historical problems.
Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781118045817
A walk through history's most mind-boggling puzzles Ever since the Sphinx asked his legendary riddle of Oedipus, riddles, conundrums, and puzzles of all sizes have kept humankind perplexed and amused. The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi takes die-hard puzzle mavens on a tour of the world's most enduringly intriguing braintwisters, from K?nigsberg's Bridges and the Hanoi Towers to Fibonacci's Rabbits, the Four Color Problem, and the Magic Square. Each chapter introduces the basic puzzle, discusses the mathematics behind it, and includes exercises and answers plus additional puzzles similar to the one under discussion. Here is a veritable kaleidoscope of puzzling labyrinths, maps, bridges, and optical illusions that will keep aficionados entertained for hours. Marcel Danesi (Etobicoke, ON, Canada) is the author of Increase Your Puzzle IQ
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781470463656
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This is the original 1988 edition and contains columns published from 1974-1976.
Author : Maurice Kraitchik
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486453583
Ranging from ancient Greek and Roman problems to the most modern applications of special mathematical techniques for amusement, this popular volume contains material to delight both beginners and advanced mathematicians. Its 250 lively puzzles, problems, situations, and demonstrations of recreational mathematics feature full solutions and analyses. Fifty-seven highly unusual historic problems are derived from ancient Greek, medieval European, Arabic, and Hindu sources. Other problems are based on "mathematics without numbers," geometry, topology, the calendar, arithmetic, and the mathematics of chess moves. Fifty pages comprise numerical pastimes built out of figurate numbers, Mersenne numbers, Fermat numbers, cyclic numbers, automorphic numbers, and prime numbers; probability problems are also fully analyzed. More than forty pages are devoted to magic squares, and the concluding portion of the book presents more than twenty-five new positional and permutational games of permanent value. A discussion of fairy chess is followed by rules and procedural information on latruncles, go, reversi, jinx, ruma, lasca, tricolor, four-story towers, tetrachrome, and other games. More than a collection of wonderful puzzles, this volume offers a thorough, rigorous, and entertaining sampler of recreational mathematics, highlighted by numerous insights into specialized fields.
Author : Colleen Adams
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781404233355
Some of the properties of addition and subtraction are explored through these ancient, and amazing squares.
