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 ...

Mathematicians have been playing magic squares since 650 BC. The idea is simple take a n x n grid and arrange the numbers from 1 to n 2 so that all the rows columns and diagonals add up to the same ...

A magic square is an arrangement of numbers where all rows, columns and diagonals add up to the same number, called the magic constant. Can you complete this square by filling in the missing numbers?

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 ...

The first crossword puzzle didn`t come on the scene until 1913. Arthur Wynn, a British expatriate editor for the New York World, was trying to liven up the Christmas edition of the Sunday magazine, ...

“In my younger days, having once some leisure which I still think I might have employed more usefully, I had amused myself in making . . . magic squares,” Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) wrote in a ...

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 ...

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 ...