[BITList] Durer's Magic Square

[HUGH]

John,

Durer and others doodled with mathematics - their interest was mainly geometrical. That particular magic square may indeed have been worked out by Durer, and probably was. The Chinese, centuries before him, used magic squares for mathematical analysis of simultaneous equations.

Hugh.
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