| | ASP: Books of Note Archives |
 | | No scientific quest is as exciting as the search for the key to understanding the universe—the elusive unified "theory of everything." |
 | | In this comprehensive and exciting encyclopedia of magic squares, Clifford Pickover offers a colorful history of these and similar structures, their construction, and classification along with a outstanding variety of newly discovered objects ranging from ornate inlaid magic cubes to hypercubes. |
 | | Pickover surveys the importance of magic squares to Chinese emperors, Babylonian astrologer-priests, prehistoric cave people in France, and the ancient Mayans of the Yucatan, all of whom were convinced these objects held the secret of the universe. |
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