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The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars : An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions /
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 alo...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2002.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; THE ZEN OF MAGIC SQUARES, CIRCLES, AND STARS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Magic Construction; CHAPTER TWO Classification; CHAPTER THREE Gallery 1: Squares, Cubes, and Tesseracts; CHAPTER FOUR Gallery 2: Circles and Spheres; CHAPTER FIVE Gallery 3: Stars, Hexagons, and Other Beauties; Some Final Thoughts; Notes; For Further Reading; Index; About the Author.