Where chemistry meets maths meets art – Royal Society of Chemistry

Geoffrey Boocock spent his Time4Chem last year creatively designing arithmetical magic squares in celebration of our 175th anniversary after attending a Science in Art event held at Burlington House.

My idea for some scientific art took the form of a birthday card for the Royal Society of Chemistrys 175th anniversary, especially when I found that there are magic squares for a total of 175, with component numbers that could represent chemical elements via their atomic numbers. In the 5x5 square shown all the rows and columns, as well as the two major diagonals, add up to 175.

However, as the 175th anniversary year was already substantially spent, I investigated the possibility of a 176 magic square.

I found that there is a usable, simple magic square, possible a unique one, for a summation to 176.

In Geoffrey's magic square each row, column, diagonal, and colour-defined set add up to 176. Picture: Geoffrey Boocock

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Where chemistry meets maths meets art - Royal Society of Chemistry