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Introducing a new reference book on magic squares, cubes, tesseracts, magic stars, etc.

Front cover of the book

Magic Square Lexicon: Illustrated
By Harvey D. Heinz and John R. Hendricks
ISBN 0-9687985-0-0, 228 pages 5 ½ x 8 ½, perfect bound, laminated cover.
171 captioned illustrations and tables, 239 terms defined, 2 appendices of bibliographies.

This book defines 239 terms associated with magic squares, cubes, tesseracts, stars, etc. Many of these terms have been in use hundreds of years while some were coined in the last several years. While meant as a reference book, it should be ideal for casual browsing with its almost 200 illustrations and tables, 171 of which are captioned.

While this book is not meant as a "how-to-do" book, it should be a source of inspiration for anyone interested in this fascinating subject. Many tables compare characteristics between orders or dimensions. The illustrations were chosen, where possible, to demonstrate additional features besides the particular definition.
(from the back cover)

Unfortunately, the book is now out-of-print

Download the free complete Lexicon eBook here. (2072 Kb).

Book Review

Subject: Your book, Magic Square Lexicon:
Date:      Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:36:33 -0800 (PST)
From:     Charles Ashbacher <cashbacher@yahoo.com>
To:         hdheinz@istar.ca, magic-cubes@home.com (hh note: email addresses now changed)

Thank you for sending me a copy of your wonderful book.
The following review will appear in the book reviews column of 30(4) of JRM.
(It appeared in JRM 31(1), 2002-2003, pp59-60)

Review of:
Magic Square Lexicon: Illustrated, by H. D. Heinz and J. R. Hendricks
Published by Harvey D. Heinz, Surrey, BC, 2000.
174 pages, $25.00(paper). ISBN 0-9687985-0-0.

Book Review
While magic squares have a long history, until I read this book, I had no idea how much has been done in the last few decades. The basic principles that make up a magic square can be used to create an enormous number of similar objects. There are magic cubes, tesseracts, stars, circles, triangular regions, hexagons and just about every other shape in existence. Further complicating the mix are additional features such as using only prime numbers or numbers whose squares also make the structure magic.

The purpose of this book is to introduce and explain these results. Designed in the format of a dictionary, the topics are in alphabetical order for easy reference. Profusely illustrated, nearly every topic is accompanied by an illustration, all of which are well-done and make the topic completely unambiguous.

There is no doubt that magic squares will still be a popular field of mathematics one hundred years from now. To me, it is also clear that at that time the publication of this book will be considered a major event in the history of magic square-like constructs. This is one of the most impressive books I have ever read.

Magic Square Lexicon: Illustrated is all about magic squares, magic cubes, magic tesseracts, magic hypercubes, magic stars, magic circles, etc. It gives you definitions, limits, examples, illustrations, tables, terminology and everything that you want to know about magic objects.

It is written by two men who have spent a lifetime studying the subject and who have pooled
their knowledge and experience in order to produce this book.

The contents of this web site show a fair representation of Harvey Heinz’s work and interests.

The work of John Hendricks, may be seen at his page on this site.
In addition, John has published over 40 articles and papers on these subjects as well as a half dozen books.