Sam Loyd's Missing Square/Historical Note

Historical Note on Sam Loyd's Missing Square

While Sam Loyd's Missing Square puzzle has Sam Loyd's name attached to it, it appears to have been first published in $1774$ in Rational Recreations by William Hooper, about whom little seems to be known.

Sources

• 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): The Vanishing Square Paradox: $143$