David Singmaster
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March 2006 | |
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1939 USA |
| 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 cube notation (i.e., which letters denote which faces on the Rubik's Cube), his solution to the Rubik's Cube[2][3] and his huge personal collection of mechanical puzzles and books of brain teasers. He is also interested in the history of computers.
In combinatorial number theory, Singmaster's conjecture states that there is a finite upper bound on the number of times a number other than 1 can appear in Pascal's triangle. Paul Erdős suspected that the conjecture is true, but thought it would probably be very difficult to prove. The empirical evidence is consistent with the proposition that the smallest upper bound is 8.
Books
- Notes on Rubik's magic cube, David Singmaster. Enslow Pub Inc, 1981. ISBN 0-89490-043-9.
- 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 0-19-853202-4.
- "Solution to Meffert's Pyramorphix ",CO Authored by David Singmaster Meffert's Puzzles, 15 May 1997.
See also
References
- ↑ Hot-Selling Hungarian Horror - TIME
- ↑ David Singmaster (1980-08-06). "A Step by Step Solution of Rubik's "Magic Cube"". Jeffrey W Baumann & LinkedResources. Archived from the original on 2006-03-04.
- ↑ Ryan Heise. "Beginner's Rubik's Cube Solution". Archived from the original on 2015-09-26.
The general layer-by-layer approach described above is credited to mathematician David Singmaster and was first published in his 1980 book "Notes on Rubik's Magic Cube"
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