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The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions
Clifford A. Pickover
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Description for The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions
Paperback. Humanity's love affair with mathematics and mysticism reached a critical juncture, legend has it, on the back of a turtle in ancient China. This book 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. Num Pages: 432 pages, 191 line illus. BIC Classification: PBM; PDZM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 682.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
434
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
682g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691115979
SKU
V9780691115979
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About Clifford A. Pickover
Clifford 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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions
A perpetual idea machine, Clifford Pickover is one of the most creative, original thinkers in the world today.
Journal of Recreational Mathematics Pickover just seems to exist in more dimensions than the rest of us.
Ian Stewart, Scientific American Clifford Pickover is many things
scientist, scholar, author, editor, and visionary.
Games It is a safe bet to conjecture ... Read more
Journal of Recreational Mathematics Pickover just seems to exist in more dimensions than the rest of us.
Ian Stewart, Scientific American Clifford Pickover is many things
scientist, scholar, author, editor, and visionary.
Games It is a safe bet to conjecture ... Read more