Subject: Re: [HM] "President Garfield's Proof"
From: Antreas P. Hatzipolakis (xpolakis@otenet.gr)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2000 - 23:44:15 EST
John Harper wrote:
> We never thought Jefferson was the only one. Benjamin Franklin must have
> known some mathematics too. He may not have contributed a new theorem or
> a new proof of an old one, but he did do some scientific research while
> in office as US Ambassador to France!
Is not this B. Franklin the discoverer of a well-known arithmmetical square?
<q>
See W. S. Andrews, Magic Squares and Cubes (New York: Dover,
1960). Chapter 3, entitled "The Franklin Squares," begins by
quoting Franklin's original account of his discovery, as found
in "Letters and papers on Philosophical subjects by Benjamin
Franklin, LL.D., F.R.S.," London, 1769.
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http://forum.swarthmore.edu/alejandre/magic.square/ben.html
Antreas
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