Magic Square 4

History
A Magic Square 4 x 4 can he considered as the King of all the Magic Squares, for its an array of 16 numbers which can be added in 84 ways to get the same
Magic Sum.
It is said that Albrecht Drer a German painter, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg had made one such Magic Square in 1514. Our first
example is almost like Drers majestic combination.

Example 1
As usual we are going to make a magic square with the first natural numbers, the magic sum of first 16 natural numbers is 34. Going by our formula.

AP: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

STEP 1
Draw 4 x 4 square grid and put small dots in the boxes along both
diagonals. Start counting from the topmost left and fill the un dotted
boxes with the respective terms. Although the dotted boxes are
counted the term corresponding to that box is not written there and the
adjacent box is filled in the order.( Here the crossed cells are not filled
even though they are counted with numbers written in it,)
STEP 2
Now start filling from the lower most right cell, the boxes are counted using
the same AP towards left. The dotted boxes are then filled with the numbers
corresponding to that box.
Alternate Method. The same result can be obtained if we fill all the cells in
the order with out putting any vacant cells along the diagonals and then
reversing the filling in these diagonals.

Here the Magic Sum

a) Along Rows = 34 b) Along Columns = 34 c) Along Diagonals = 34