Tony Várilly-Alvarado uses surprising mathematics to show that a 3x3 Magic Square of Squares is highly unlikely. See Matt Parker react to this video at: • Matt Parker Reacts to Magic Squares o... --- More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓
Tony's webpage at Rice University: https://math.rice.edu/~av15/
Paper by Nils Bruin, Jordan Thomas, Anthony Várilly-Alvarado: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08908
Christian Boyer, "Some notes on the magic squares of squares problem":
https://link.springer.com/article/10....
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