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A Colorful Journey through Endless Patterns of Quick Wits |
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Everybody who enters into the
Puzzle World from the beginning can see how smart,
entertaining, colorful, many-dimensional, and dynamic
this world is. Many different people who lived in the
past or are our contemporaries created this world and
continue to do so adding to it bright ideas, and paving
new paths into unexplored before areas and dimensions.
Here I would like to present most prominent puzzle folks.
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Donald E. Knuth
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Donald Ervin Knuth is a computer
scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at
Stanford University
(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth). His work has
revolutionized the entire computer world, and his
famous multi-volume work The Art of Computer
Programming is the programmers’ Bible. Knuth
created the modern infrastructure of typefaces along
with the TeX system for computer typesetting and the
METAFONT system for creating and rendering fonts... |
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Harry L. Nelson |
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Harry
Lewis Nelson is a mathematician, computer programmer
and expert, math editor, and devoted puzzle inventor.
Now on the market there are about two dozen puzzles
and games developed with Nelson's participation and
ingenious input. In 1972 Harry Nelson founded the Minimax
Game Corporation, a small company helping puzzle
creators develop and bring different puzzles to market... |
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Martin Gardner |
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Martin Gardner
(1914-2010) was a unique and
phenomenal Popularizer of Science and Teacher who has
taught how to love math and science. No one has a
bigger influence on the Puzzle World history and
achievements than Martin Gardner. Every true puzzle
lover knows Martin Gardner first of all because of his
excellent
puzzle books
which make a fantastic modern library of Recreational
Mathematics... |
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Robert Abbott |
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Robert Abbott is
the World's leading creator and expert in mazes of all
kinds. An incredible variety of his ideas can easily
entangle your imagination and amuse your mind: Theseus
and the Minotaur (also for the iPhone and iPod Touch
now), Alice Mazes, Sliding Door Maze, Mazes with
Things That Roll, The Bureaucratic Maze, and Dungeon
Mazes, just to name a few... |
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Larry D. Nichols |
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Dr. Larry D.
Nichols, a lifelong puzzle enthusiast and inventor,
created many outstanding puzzles. Some of them are:
the Nichols Cube Puzzle (U.S. patent 3,655,201), a 2 x 2 x 2
rotating cube invented seventeen years before Dr.
Rubik’s cube; Leapin' Lizards, a "restricted route"
puzzle; or Double Play, a new sliding block puzzle... |
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Terry Stickels |
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Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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Terry Stickels is
an extraordinaire author of creative and fun
challenges which improve solvers' mental flexibility
and solving skills. His most famous puzzle columns,
Frame Games and Stickelers, are widely syndicated in
the largest newspapers of the US and Canada, and are
read by over hundred million people in hundreds of
newspapers weekly... |
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Boris Kordemsky |
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Will Shortz and
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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Boris Kordemsky
(1907-1999), a Russian teacher and popularizer of
recreational mathematics, is probably the best-selling
author of nonword puzzle books in the history of the
world. By exciting millions of people in mathematical
problems over five decades, he influenced generations
of solvers both at home and abroad... |
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Will Shortz |
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Will Shortz is the
crossword editor of The New York Times, the
former editor of Games magazine, the founder and
director of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
(since 1978), the founder of the World Puzzle
Championship (1992), and the puzzle master for NPR's
Weekend Edition Sunday since the program's start in
1987... |
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Nob Yoshigahara |
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Every century has bright, creative,
and smart people who are opening to the whole Puzzle
World's community new horizons. A Japanese puzzle guru
and genius, Nobuyuki Yoshigahara
(1936-2004), or Nob as everybody
used to call him, was one of such puzzle leaders... |
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Last
Updated: May 6, 2016
Posted: August 16, 2005 |
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