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Safa) Simpler Magic Squares Were Known To Several Earlier Arab Mathematicians

Magic squares were known to Chinese mathematicians as early as 650 BC and were later introduced to Arab mathematicians in the 7th century when Arabs conquered parts of India and learned Indian mathematics. The first magic squares of order 5 and 6 appeared in an encyclopedia from Baghdad circa 983, while simpler magic squares were known to earlier Arab mathematicians, with some later being used by Arab illusionists and magicians in conjunction with magic letters.

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Safa) Simpler Magic Squares Were Known To Several Earlier Arab Mathematicians

Magic squares were known to Chinese mathematicians as early as 650 BC and were later introduced to Arab mathematicians in the 7th century when Arabs conquered parts of India and learned Indian mathematics. The first magic squares of order 5 and 6 appeared in an encyclopedia from Baghdad circa 983, while simpler magic squares were known to earlier Arab mathematicians, with some later being used by Arab illusionists and magicians in conjunction with magic letters.

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Magic squares were known to Chinese mathematicians as early as 650 BC,

[2]
and to Arab
mathematicians possibly as early as the seventh century, when the Arabs conquered northwestern parts
of the Indian subcontinent and learned Indian mathematics and astronomy, including other aspects of
combinatorial mathematics.
[citation needed]
The first magic squares of order 5 and 6 appear in an
encyclopedia from Baghdad circa 983, the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (Rasa'il Ihkwan al-
Safa); simpler magic squares were known to several earlier Arab mathematicians.
[2]
Some of these
squares were later used in conjunction with magic letters, as in (Shams Al-ma'arif), to assist Arab
illusionists and magicians.
[3]

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