In 1972, Richard Schroeppel proved that, if a perfect magic square of order 5 exists, its center number must be 63. Last November, Walter Trump and Christian Boyer finally found a perfect magic ...

The oldest known magic square comes from China and is over 2000 years old. One of the most famous magic squares can be found in Albrecht Dürer's copper engraving Melencolia I. Another one is on ...

It was not until four centuries later that Chinese mathematician Zhang Zhao of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) made up a perfect 10x10 magic square. The first documented magic square in the West was ...