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The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars (An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions)

The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars (An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions)

Clifford A. Pickover
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This is the most comprehensive and exciting book in many decades on magic squares arrays filled with number of letters in particular arrangements. Clifford Pickover offers a colourful hsitory of these and similar structure, their construction, and classifciation along with a remarkable variety of newsly discovered object ranging from ornate inlaid magic cubes to hypercubes. He explains why Chinese emperors, Babylonian astrologer priests, prehistoric cave people in France, and ancient Mayans of the Yucatan were convinced that magic squares held the secret of the universe. About Author : Clifford A Pickover is the author of over twenty books on a broad range of topics in science and art, a columnist for Odyssey, and an inventor. His books include Surfing Through Hyperspace; Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy lessons, Wonders of Numbers; Adventures in Mathematics, Mind and Meaning and the Loom of God: Mathematical Tapestries at the Eduge of Time. Contents : Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Magic Construction Classification Gallery I: Squares, Cubes and Tesseracts Gallery 2: Circles and Spheres Gallery 3: Stars, Hexagons, and Other Beauties Some final throughts Notes Index
Pages
432
Format
Paperback
Release
December 01, 2001

The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars (An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions)

Clifford A. Pickover
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This is the most comprehensive and exciting book in many decades on magic squares arrays filled with number of letters in particular arrangements. Clifford Pickover offers a colourful hsitory of these and similar structure, their construction, and classifciation along with a remarkable variety of newsly discovered object ranging from ornate inlaid magic cubes to hypercubes. He explains why Chinese emperors, Babylonian astrologer priests, prehistoric cave people in France, and ancient Mayans of the Yucatan were convinced that magic squares held the secret of the universe. About Author : Clifford A Pickover is the author of over twenty books on a broad range of topics in science and art, a columnist for Odyssey, and an inventor. His books include Surfing Through Hyperspace; Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy lessons, Wonders of Numbers; Adventures in Mathematics, Mind and Meaning and the Loom of God: Mathematical Tapestries at the Eduge of Time. Contents : Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Magic Construction Classification Gallery I: Squares, Cubes and Tesseracts Gallery 2: Circles and Spheres Gallery 3: Stars, Hexagons, and Other Beauties Some final throughts Notes Index
Pages
432
Format
Paperback
Release
December 01, 2001

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