Seymour S Block, Santiago A Tavares

Before Sudoku

The World of Magic Squares

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Produktbeschreibung

Fans of sudoku may not know that the game is a recent offshoot of the venerable Magic Square, which dates back more than 4,000 years to ancient China. This book provides a delightful account of the mind-boggling variety possible with magical squares.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 139mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9780195367904
• ISBN-10: 0195367901
• Artikelnr.: 24423690

Autorenporträt

Both authors are retired from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Seymour Block, Ph.D., is a past president of the American Chemical Society, though he long ago became an aficionado of and expert on Ben Franklin. He's written two well-reviewed trade books on Franklin, not to mention several academic books in chemistry/chemical engineering (including one chemE reference book now in its 5th edition). Block has been interviewed on the History Channel on Franklin and his inventions and has written a number of popular articles on him, most recently the feature cover article for American History magazine (February 2006, "Benjamin Franklin: America's Inventor"). Santiago Tavares, Ph.D., has researched applied and computational math and is an author of one academic/professional math book.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Magic Squares and Sudoku
3: History of Sudoku
4: Some Techniques for Solving Sudoku Puzzles
5: History of Magic Squares
7: Magic Squares and Arithmetic
8: Exotic Magic Squares
9: Other Magic Squares
10: Magic Squares in Art and Design
11: The Fourth Dimension
12: Practical Applications of Magic Squares
13: Some Puzzles for You
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