Clifford A. Pickover The zen of magic squares, circles, and stars

an exhibition of surprising structures across dimensions

"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...

Engels | 405 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton [etc.] | 2002

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