Newsgroups: sci.math
From: jedhudson@cix.compulink.co.uk ("John Hudson")
Subject: Re: I have a problem with a Magic Square , special k=4n+2
Message-ID: <E2w3vw.Eqs@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 23:28:43 GMT

> K.Muenzel@c-edv.de@c-edv.de wrote:
> > 
> > Hallo
> > I need Help for my "Facharbeit", It is about "Hwo to construct Magic 
> > Squares".
> > 
> > Who knows a constructin description for Magic Squares with the side 
> > length of
> > k=4n+2, n e N+; (k= 10, 14, 18, 22, ...)

Not my speciality, but the connection with orthogonal tables is in
 Sherman K. Stein: "Mathematics, the man-made universe",   W.H.Freeman & 
Co. San Francisco, 1969
See also M. Gardner: "Mathematical Games", Scientific American, Nov. 
1959, pp.181-188
and W.W.Rouse-Ball: "Mathematical recreations and essays",  Macmillan 
1947.