From ICM Invited Lectures & Panels for July 27, 2026:
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Bhargava — "Inscribed on a wall near the entrance of the majestic Parshvanath Jain Temple in Khajuraho, India (built around 960 CE) is a 4 × 4 magic square with remarkable arithmetic properties. We will explain why this magic square is the unique one of its kind, up to certain transformations. This answers a question posed by the legendary geometer HSM Coxeter in 1938. We will also explain why there is a unique such magic object in every dimension." |
Related reading
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Bhargava in this journal
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How are algebraic, combinatorial, and geometric
structures unified within the Brick Space model?
- Coxeter, Symmetry, and Diabolic Magic Squares —
