A Pythagorean magic square? Jamblichus of Chalcis as a precursor to the Arabo-Byzantine commentators
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A Pythagorean magic square? Jamblichus of Chalcis as a precursor to the Arabo-Byzantine commentators
zbMATH Open document ID: 1087.01005
author: Nicolas Vinel
published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences
publication date: 2005-12-19T00:00:00Z
review text: While ancient Chinese and medieval Arabic sources about magic squares are known, the first known Greek source is late Byzantine from the 14th Cent. The author notes that the late classical Greek author Jamblichos in his commentary on Nicomachos, when explaining the Pythagorean theory of numbers, describes what can be considered a way of obtaining a magic square of order 3. The conclusion seems to be speculative.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05-03
zbMATH DE Number: 2239588
reviewed by: Heinrich Guggenheimer
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s00407-005-0097-x
OpenAlex ID: W2073572568
DOI: 10.1007/S00407-005-0097-X
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