Supplementary notes on Lewis Carroll, Graeco-Latin squares and magic squares with an annexe on Maria Theresa thalers and British banknotes
Author(s) -
R. W. Farebrother
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
acta et commentationes universitatis tartuensis de mathematica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.276
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2228-4699
pISSN - 1406-2283
DOI - 10.12697/acutm.2015.19.09
Subject(s) - magic square , magic (telescope) , portrait , adventure , latin square , art history , square (algebra) , art , mathematics , humanities , combinatorics , physics , geometry , rumen , chemistry , food science , quantum mechanics , fermentation
Following a brief critique of the wording of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, this article offers some supplementary remarks relating to the solution of a 3 x 3 pseudo-magic square problem posed by Lewis Carroll, a generalisation of the 3 x 3 Lo-Su or luoshu magic square, the problem of installing m(2) = 25 or m(2) = 36 officers of m different ranks and in different regiments in a m x m Graeco-Latin square (with apposite remarks on the military career of Leonhard Euler's third son and the recent coinage of the Empress Maria Theresa) and a list of fourteen portraits of mathematicians on banknotes paying particular attention to those of Sir Isaac Newton and Florence Nightingale.
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