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The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions
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 al...
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2011
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description | 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 a |
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spelling | cern-14374152021-04-22T00:34:00Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/1437415engPickover, Clifford AThe Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across DimensionsMathematical Physics and Mathematics 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 aPrinceton University Pressoai:cds.cern.ch:14374152011 |
spellingShingle | Mathematical Physics and Mathematics Pickover, Clifford A The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions |
title | The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions |
title_full | The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions |
title_fullStr | The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions |
title_full_unstemmed | The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions |
title_short | The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions |
title_sort | zen of magic squares, circles, and stars: an exhibition of surprising structures across dimensions |
topic | Mathematical Physics and Mathematics |
url | http://cds.cern.ch/record/1437415 |
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