As of May 4 2007 the scripts will autodetect your timezone settings. Nothing here has to be changed, but there are a few things

Please follow this blog

Search this blog

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Ramanujan's magic square formula

Today I started to read the Ramanujan biography ( The e-book version, of course. ) The book looks promising. What was it like to communicate with someone gifted with such powerful mathematical insights? I am hoping ( a bit less after every failed try ) for a book that pulls me in that world of it's own. I have been there before on many occassions, while reading other books of course. Scientologists have a special word for it: exteriorizing.
The Man Who Knew Infinity.
At a very young age he designed the following formula for a 3 by 3 magic square:

C+Q | A+P | B+R
A+R | B+Q | C+P
B+P | C+R | A+Q

where A,B,C are integers in arithmetic progression and so are P,Q,R.

Try it, it works!
Posted by at 9:57:00 PM
Labels: ,

4 comments:

  1. UnknownThursday, October 15, 2009 at 8:23:00 PM GMT+2

    dis is wonderful...dis is in real sense...a magic...by a legend...

    ReplyDelete
  2. Chetna VigSunday, October 24, 2010 at 6:55:00 PM GMT+2

    Had the numbers not in A.P.,we can get sum of all the columns and rows to be same.By taking numbers in A.P.,he gave us a real magic square in which even the sum of diagonals is also same.It shows in how much depth great Ramanujan was into the subject.He is an inspiration.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Vedic MathematicsTuesday, December 25, 2012 at 8:07:00 AM GMT+1

    Wow , really a great magical formula. I love to use this formula again and again.

    Thanks for posting great article.

    SUZZANE

    ReplyDelete
  4. UnknownSaturday, October 5, 2013 at 1:54:00 PM GMT+2

    superb formula, salute to our great mathematician,,
    proud to be an Indian

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Popular Posts

  • Video Lectures on Number Theory
    Among lectures on Calculus I,II and III, ( Introduction to ) Linear Algebra and ( Introduction to ) Differential Equations from the UCCS ( ...
  • Sum of a list in Mathematica
    Problem: We want to calculate the sum of the elements of a list of numbers. Suppose this list is named l and has been assigned the value {1,...
  • Ramanujan's magic square formula
    Today I started to read the Ramanujan biography ( The e-book version, of course. ) The book looks promising. What was it like to communicate...
  • Video lectures Abstract Algebra
    I found a set of video lectures on Abstract Algebra. MATH E-222 Abstract Algebra - http://www.extension.harvard.edu/openlearning/math222/ E...
  • Ramanujan's magic square formula - Revisited
    Ramanujan's genius (r) was discovered by Hardy (l) At a very young age Ramanujan designed the following formula for a 3 by 3 magic sq...

Welcome to The Bridge

Mathematics: is it the fabric of MEST?
This is my voyage
My continuous mission
To uncover hidden structures
To create new theorems and proofs
To boldly go where no man has gone before




(Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion, colloquially aka Raumpatrouille Orion was the first German science fiction television series. Its seven episodes were broadcast by ARD beginning September 17, 1966. The series has since acquired cult status in Germany. Broadcast six years before Star Trek first aired in West Germany (in 1972), it became a huge success.)