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Mathematics: Master puzzler

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David Singmaster delights in the autobiography of Martin Gardner, whose Scientific American maths column enchanted tens of thousands.

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  1. David Singmaster is a retired professor of mathematics at London South Bank University and an honorary research fellow at University College London. He was the first person to write about the Rubik's Cube outside Hungary and devised the now standard notation for it.,

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