Before Sudoku by Seymour S Block
In Before Sudokus, Seymour Block and Santiago Tavares offer a crystal clear and engaging tour of Magic Squares, tracing their footsteps through ancient and medieval history and illuminating their uses in art and design, statistics and electronics.
The authors, both chemical engineers, have written a concise survey of a fascinating family of integer matricesI will keep B&T in my library and I recommend it as a good starting point for newcomers to the field for the variety of magical squares introduced; however B&T contains no significant linear algebra. * The Bulletin of the International Linear Algebra Society *
Both authors are retired from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Seymour Block, Ph.D., is a past president of the American Chemical Society, though he long ago became an aficionado of and expert on Ben Franklin. He's written two well-reviewed trade books on Franklin, not to mention several academic books in chemistry/chemical engineering (including one chemE reference book now in its 5th edition). Block has been interviewed on the History Channel on Franklin and his inventions and has written a number of popular articles on him, most recently the feature cover article for American History magazine (February 2006, "Benjamin Franklin: America's Inventor"). Santiago Tavares, Ph.D., has researched applied and computational math and is an author of one academic/professional math book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195367904 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195367901 |
| Title | Before Sudoku |
| Author | Seymour S Block |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2009-03-26 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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