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Science News
June 24, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Counting Franklin's Magic Squares One mathematician finds that Benjamin Franklin's remarkable magic squares are just three of more than 1 million possibilities.   |
Science News
July 5, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Alphamagic Squares Magic squares have fascinated people for thousands of years. They consist of a set of whole numbers arranged in a square so that the sum of the numbers is the same in each row, in each column, and along each diagonal. A twist on the concept, the alphamagic square, is interesting, too. |
Science News
June 25, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Magic Squares of Squares People have been toying with magic squares for more than 2,000 years--setting themselves increasingly difficult challenges to find arrays of numbers that fit given patterns. Here are some examples. |
Science News
July 1, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Magic Square Physics Taking a magic square or cube for a spin reveals some interesting properties. |
Science News
October 4, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
A Magic Knight's Tour For as long as chessboards have existed, there have been puzzles involving chessboards and chess pieces. Some of the most enduring conundrums involve knights. |
Science News
January 3, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Perfect Magic Cubes A magic cube is a three-dimensional array of whole numbers, in which each row, column, and body diagonal adds up to the same total. A perfect magic cube is one in which the diagonals of each vertical or horizontal slice through the cube also sum to the same value. Mathematicians are intrigued. |
Science News
July 7, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Sudoku and Graph Theory Mathematicians find new clues to the popular puzzle. |
Science News
February 3, 2007
Ivars Peterson |
Sudoku Class Sudoku puzzles are showing up in the math classroom. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 12, 2004
Jonathan Byrnes |
Bridge the Gap Between Strategy and Tactics: Part 3 The Magic Matrix enables managers to go far beyond core integrated planning into much more sophisticated, powerful advanced integrated planning. Here are six applications. |
Science News
November 25, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Square of the Hypotenuse A history of the well-traveled and perpetually youthful Pythagorean Theorem... |
The Motley Fool
September 9, 2011
Shubh Datta |
Magic on the Move Magic Software is moving in the right direction. |
Science News
October 26, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Tetris Is Hard As many computer- and video-game players have long known, the insanely addictive, immensely popular game of Tetris is tough. Now, researchers from MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science have analyzed Tetris from a computational perspective. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 1, 2003
Jonathan Byrnes |
Bridge the Gap Between Strategy and Tactics Core integrated planning is a five-step process. Here are the key Magic Matrices, and some important planning issues they enable managers to address. |
Science News
May 27, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Math Trails in Ottawa ...math teacher Ron Lancaster of Hamilton, Ontario, has been creating "math trails" for both students and teachers as a way to demonstrate that mathematics can be found anywhere and everywhere... |
Science News
May 6, 2000 |
Completing Latin Squares Latin Squares have proved useful for a variety of purposes. However, their generation is a "quasigroup completion problem" which can involve difficult computation and a phase transition. |
Science News
July 17, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Waring Experiments The different ways of expressing whole numbers as sums of parts has long fascinated both professional and amateur mathematicians. |
This Old House
John Kelsey |
Choosing and Using Squares These simple but indispensable measuring tools can do some amazing tricks |
Science News
October 30, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Squaring Circles Laczkovich proved that "squaring the circle" is possible, provided that the pieces have the right form. The proof applies not only to circles but also to nearly any plane figure with a mathematically well-behaved boundary... Puzzle of the Week... |
Linux Journal
October 2000
Jon Valesh |
Magic Enterprises Edition 8.3 for Linux Magic Enterprise 8.3 provides the back end, and Magic Tool Kit 8.3 provides the rapid development environment for e-commerce and other database-intensive applications. Between the two, you'll have everything you need for your database/web site integration. |
PC Magazine
February 21, 2007
Robert P. Lipschutz |
Network Magic 4.1 Aimed at the person forced into managing a home network, Network Magic has a plethora of helpful tools. |
Fast Company
Austin Carr |
The Four Myths About Square's IPO Filing This week Square filed for its long-rumored and long-anticipated IPO, and the public finally got a look at how Square's business is actually performing. |
Smithsonian
March 2006
Simon Worrall |
Ben Franklin Slept Here Visitors can now experience the ingenious founding father's only surviving residence in London -- now reborn as a museum. |
Reason
December 2007
Brian Doherty |
Magic Trade Tricks For years the magic industry has managed to protect intellectual property without any recourse to patent, copyright, or trade secret law, according to a Yale Law School study. |
The Motley Fool
May 3, 2006
Doug Short |
Solving the Retirement Puzzle The secret of retirement planning? Treat your finances like a Sudoku puzzle. |
Sports Central
February 9, 2005
Tyson Wirth |
Profile of a Leader: The Magic Touch The awesome power of Bird's statement is that it's as accurate in describing Magic off the court as on it. A decade after retirement, Earvin is still one of the most charismatic and inspirational faces ever associated with the NBA. |
Searcher
September 2003
Barbara Quint |
Muggle Magic Today's information professionals probably book more online for their end-user client communities than I ever reached with intermediated searching, but, if they're doing their job well, the clients may never see the work. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 3, 2003
Jonathan Byrnes |
Bridge the Gap Between Strategy and Tactics Profitability management, the theme of this column, is all about translating great strategies into sound plans -- and sound plans into effective tactical actions. |
The Motley Fool
January 21, 2011
Jim Royal |
Consumer Goods' Magic Formula This mechanical strategy could be magic. |
PC Magazine
June 5, 2009
Mario Morejon |
Cisco Network Magic Pro 5.5 The latest version of Cisco's Network Magic is the best software tool we've ever seen for home networking. |
Fast Company
Austin Carr |
Why Jack Dorsey Killed The Square Credit Card Despite buzz about the potential of a Square credit card, other company sources indicate the project was recently killed. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Jack Dorsey: "I Believe That The Square Wallet Experience Was The Peak" Square Wallet, the digital wallet from mobile payments company Square that allowed people to pay with just their name, may not stay dead for long. |
Science News
September 6, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Pennant Races and Magic Numbers It's getting close to the end of the regular baseball season. Fanatic fans track not only which team is in first place or in position for a wild-card berth in the playoffs but also the number of games a team must win to avoid elimination. The calculation of a "magic" number is interesting. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2011
Anders Bylund |
Franklin Street Properties Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of real estate and banking operator Franklin Street Properties opened up 13.4% below Tuesday's closing price but climbed back to nearly break even on moderate trading volume. |
PHONE+
July 31, 2009
Cara Sievers |
Personality+: Jay Garrett -- Making Magic In his spare time, Jay Garrett, a field engineer for Nortel distributor Voice Data Systems, performs magic for kids. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
Justin Mullins |
Ben Franklin's London House Opens As a Landmark The house in London where Benjamin Franklin lived just before the American Revolution opened recently as a public museum exactly 300 years after the birth of the scientist and statesman. |
BusinessWeek
November 29, 2004
Diane Brady |
Jarden Corp: Not A Household Name -- Yet But many of the brands owned by the company are -- and CEO Martin Franklin has big plans to turn the eclectic holding company into a top purveyor of consumer goods. |
