Copyright "Die Zeit" (left) and "Sciences et Avenir" (right).
List of articles about the smallest perfect magic cube.
After the discovery in November 2003 of the first known perfect magic cube of order 5 by Walter Trump and me (see the smallest possible perfect cube), numerous articles were published both in print and on the Internet. For example, four nice published illustrations of our cube:
Copyright
"Die Zeit" (left) and "Sciences et Avenir" (right).
On
the left: thanks to Bruno Bourgeois, B2
Infographie, author of this "Science & Vie" image.
On
the right: thanks to Gary L. Musser and Blake E. Peterson to have
thought of our cube for the
cover of the 7th edition of their book "Mathematics
for Elementary Teachers". Publisher : Wiley, 2006.
You
can click on these 2 images to enlarge them.
Here is the main articles that we are aware of, the logos being clickable. By chronological order, many thanks to:
Eric Weisstein, 
,
Nov.
18, 2003: "Perfect magic cube of order 5 discovered"
Andreas Stiller, 
,
Nov.
19, 2003: "Perfekter magischer Würfel der Ordnung 5
gefunden"
Andreas Stiller, 
,
Dec. 1, 2003: "Der Würfel ist gefallen"
Gérard Sevestre, 
Sciences
n°1423, Dec. 4, 2003: "Découverte du plus petit cube magique parfait"
Christoph Drösser, 
,
Dec. 4, 2003: "Zaubern mit Zahlen"
,
Dec. 5, 2003: "Cientistas decobrem medidas perfeitas de cubo"
Both 
and 
,
Dec. 5, 2003: "Menor cubo mágico possível é construído"
,
Dec. 5, 2003: "Logan construir un cubo mágico"
Frédéric Lewino, 
,
Dec. 5, 2003: "Une histoire de cubes"
Jean-François Augereau, 
,
Dec. 7-8, 2003: "Une découverte mathématique qui ne sert à rien"
(?)
Elke Grasser-Reitzner,
,
Dec. 8, 2003: "109 Wege führen zum magischen Würfel"
Françoise Cinotti and Philippe
Boulanger, 
,
Jan. 2004: "Le plus petit cube magique parfait"
,
Jan. 2004: "Le plus petit cube parfait"
Elisabeth Busser, 
,
Jan.-Feb. 2004: "Mathématiques de l'inutile" (about Le Monde)
Ivars Peterson, 
Jan.
3, 2004: "Perfect magic cubes"
Ivars Peterson, 
,
Jan.
5, 2004: "Perfect magic cubes"
Caroline de Malet, 
,
Jan. 6, 2004: "Le plus petit cube magique parfait"
Federico Peiretti, 
,
Jan. 7, 2004: "Cubi magici"
Download
the PDF file (337Kb) of this article published in Italian in TST
La Stampa
Sénateur Robert-Denis del Picchia, 
,
Jan. 9, 2004: "Cubes magiques"
, Jan.
11, 2004: "5x5x5-taikakuutio löytyi"
Benoît Rittaud, 
,
Feb. 2004: "Cube magique parfait d'ordre 5"
Nicolas Revoy, 
,
March 2004: "Cube magique - La perfection a été atteinte !"
Christoph Pöppe, 
,
March 2004: "Perfekte magische Würfel"
,
March 2004: "Le plus petit cube magique parfait"
Download
the PDF file (955Kb) of this article published in French in La Recherche
Odile Landreau, ARTS &
METIERS Magazine,
Dec. 2005:
"Le cube était presque parfait : une enquête à rebondissements"
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