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WHAT IS A MAGIC SQUARE?
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A magic square is like music. There is a beauty in the arrangement of numbers. Keats said that heard melodies are sweet, unheard are sweeter. Likewise, there is a pattern in the arrangement of numbers in the magic square. If you are able to visualize that pattern and hear that music you would be swept away by the beauty of the magic squares.
A number of mathematicians like Euler, Srinivasa Ramanujan, etc have worked in the field of the magic squares. Galileo had said that Nature has written everything in the language of mathematics. In other words, we can say that Mathematics is the language of Nature and the Universe.
There are two kinds of magic squares, they are odd-order magic squares and even-order magic squares.
Odd order magic squares are of type 3x3, 5x5, 7x7, etc. There are famous methods like the Bachet Meziriac method and the De La Loubere method to construct them.
There is also a formula to find the magic sum of a magic square of a given order.
Many great mathematicians have worked in the field of the magic squares.
Ancient India has contributed a lot to the field of magic squares.
There is one way called the Turaga gathi or the horse move method that is talked in our Mathematical treatise called as the Ganith Sara Sangaraha by Narayana achar which talks about the Turaga gathi or the horse move also called as the knight's move in chess.
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