Stories Survive

By B.A. Van Sise In recreational mathematics—math one does for fun as opposed to, say, unhappy obligation—there is a puzzle of sorts called the magic square. There are many kinds of them—semimagic squares, orthomagic squares, multimagic squares, trivial magic squares, normal magic squares, most perfect magic squares—but the idea remains the same: imagine a tic-tac-toe … Continued