This magic square has been known since ancient times. Each row, column and diagonal of three numbers adds to the same magic constant, 15. There is, however, a different type of 3×3 magic square, in ...

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 ...

At the last week of summer camp at Math & Physics Exploration in Poughkeepsie, students learned to solve magic squares from 3x3 to 18x18, a task that is difficult for many adults, according to a ...

“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 ...