The study of magic squares has a long, long history. In ancient Babylonian times, these array of numbers were held to have magical powers. Over the years, they have also served as protective charms ...

Magic Squares: A touch of mysticism and a lot of brain-challenging fun! By Marcel Danesi, Ph.D. in Brain Workout One of the most fascinating number games of all time is the magic square. In its ...

Luoshu was allegedly the first documented "magic square" in the world. A magic square in mathematics is an array of numbers, in which the numbers in each row, each line and each of the two diagonals ...

Magic squares belong to the imagination of humanity for a long time. The oldest known magic square comes from China and is over 2000 years old. One of the most famous magic squares can be found in ...

Benjamin Franklin was a brilliant amateur scientist in an era when amateur science mattered. His experiments on electricity won him the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 1753 — it is to Franklin that we ...

The magic of mathematics is particularly reflected in magic squares. Recently, quantum physicists and mathematicians introduced the notion of the quantum magic square, and for the first time studied ...