David Singmaster
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| David Singmaster | |
 March 2006
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| Born | 1939 USA |
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| Occupation | Retired professor of mathematics |
| Known for | Mathematics of puzzles |
David Breyer Singmaster (born 1939 USA [1]) is a retired professor of mathematics at London South Bank University, England, UK. A self-described metagrobologist, he is most famous for his solution to the Rubik's cube and his huge personal collection of mechanical puzzles and books of brainteasers. He is also interested in the history of computers.
He is known for the following:
- Encountering Erno Rubik's "Magic Cube" (the first test batches were manufactured in Hungary in late 1977), at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki in August 1978 and later taking some to England for distribution amongst interested friends and colleagues (mainly in academic circles). He wrote a newspaper article about the Magic Cube in June 1979, which was the first to appear outside Hungary. In 1980, when the Cube was re-manufactured and renamed "Rubik's Cube", David Singmaster wrote: "… the Magic Cube is now being sold as Rubik's Cube… [the Ideal Toy Corp.] has renamed the cube as 'Rubik's Cube' on the grounds that 'magic' tends to be associated with magic."
- Research on the multiplicities of entries in Pascal's triangle.
- Regular appearances on the BBC Radio 4 panel game, Puzzle Panel.
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- Notes on Rubik's magic cube, David Singmaster. Enslow Pub Inc, 1981. ISBN 0-8949-0043-9.
- Handbook of Cubik Math, David Singmaster and Alexander Frey. The Lutterworth Press, 1987. ISBN 0-7188-2555-1.
- Rubik's Cube Compendium",Edited by David Singmaster Oxford University Press , 21 April, 1988. ISBN 0-1985-3202-4.
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