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Varahamihira also known as Varaha or Mihira was a Indian mathematician lived around 6th century. He was a great astrologer, and one of prominent figure of his time. One of his great work Pañcasiddhāntikā is now lost in time, talks about five different aspects of Astronomy.

He created the below 4 × 4 magic square, interesting thing of square is however you sum rowwise, columnwise of diagonal wise , sum comes out to be 18

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Evariste Galois As you have observed I omitted Evariste Galois born on 25th October 1811 from my daily posts and this is because he is the one that influenced me to start the event ‘Celebrate Mathematicians …