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Magic squares cornered

Nature volume 395, pages 216–217 (1998)Cite this article

Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, one of Englan's national treasures, has solved a long-standing, extremely difficult problem involving the construction and enumeration of a certain type of magic square. The solution comes in a bookFootnote 1written with David Brée.

*Most-Perfect Pandiagonal Magic Squares: Their Construction and Enumeration. Due for publication on 1 October by The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1EF, UK.

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Figure 3: A most-perfect square of order eight.

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  1. *Most-Perfect Pandiagonal Magic Squares: Their Construction and Enumeration. Due for publication on 1 October by The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1EF, UK.

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