Gordon Royle
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Gordon F. Royle is a Professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Western Australia
. He is well known for his research into the mathematics of Sudoku
and his search for the Sudoku puzzle with the smallest number of entries that has a unique solution.
University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...
. He is well known for his research into the mathematics of Sudoku
Mathematics of Sudoku
The class of Sudoku puzzles consists of a partially completed row-column grid of cells partitioned into N regions each of size N cells, to be filled in using a prescribed set of N distinct symbols , so that each row, column and region contains exactly one of each element of the set...
and his search for the Sudoku puzzle with the smallest number of entries that has a unique solution.