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 ...

IN the interesting discourse reproduced in your issue of March 13 (p. 447), there is a statement that the number of magic squares of order 5 exceeds 60,000. Major MacMahon informs me that he gave ...

“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 ...