Henry Ernest Dudeney (10 April 1857 – 23 April 1930) was an English author and mathematician who specialised in logic puzzles and mathematical games. He...
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Alice Louisa Dudeney (née Whiffin; 21 October 1866 – 21 November 1945) was an English author and short story writer. The wife of Henry Dudeney, a fellow...
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(1866–1945), English writer, wife of Henry Henry Dudeney (1857–1930), English writer and mathematician Dudeney number Leonard Dudeney (1875–1956), English newspaper...
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first natural number is equal to the second. The name derives from Henry Dudeney, who noted the existence of these numbers in one of his puzzles, Root...
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on behalf of a number of Chinese scholars to the prominent puzzlist Henry Dudeney reads "The result has been to show that the man Tan, the god Tan, and...
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between two points on the surface of a cuboid. It was originally posed by Henry Dudeney. In the typical version of the puzzle, an otherwise empty cuboid room...
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utility companies in the plane. When posing it in the early 20th century, Henry Dudeney wrote that it was already an old problem. It is an impossible puzzle:...
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classic example, published in the July 1924 issue of Strand Magazine by Henry Dudeney, is: S E N D + M O R E = M O N E Y {\displaystyle...
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puzzles. Some notable creators of puzzles are: Ernő Rubik Sam Loyd Henry Dudeney Boris Kordemsky David J. Bodycombe Will Shortz Oskar van Deventer Lloyd...
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Bodycombe Emily Cox Henry Dudeney Tony Fisher Martin Gardner Scott Kim Lloyd King Sam Loyd Uwe Mèffert Larry D. Nichols Henry Rathvon Tom M. Rodgers...
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and glass artist) Humphry Ditton (minister) Harvey Dubner (engineer) Henry Dudeney (civil servant) Albrecht Dürer (painter) Greg Egan (writer) M. C. Escher...
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teasers, under a column called "Perplexities", first written by Henry Dudeney. Dudeney introduced many new concepts to the puzzle world, including the...
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slopes, not only those aligned with the grid. It was introduced by Henry Dudeney in 1900. Brass, Moser, and Pach call it "one of the oldest and most...
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republished in Stigler's collection "Statistics on the Table" For example, Henry Dudeney noted in his 1917 Amusements in Mathematics solution 129 that Pell's...
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dissection puzzles. Puzzle creators Sam Loyd in the United States and Henry Dudeney in the United Kingdom were among the most published. Since then, dissection...
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is a simple impartial game in combinatorial game theory, invented by Henry Dudeney in 1908. Given a row of imagined bowling pins, players take turns to...
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Publications Inc., p. xi, ISBN 0-486-20498-7 Newing, Angela (1994), "Henry Ernest Dudeney: Britain's Greatest Puzzlist", in Guy, Richard K.; Woodrow, Robert...
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Authors such as Henry Dudeney and Martin Gardner have made many uses of tessellation in recreational mathematics. For example, Dudeney invented the hinged...
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the News of the World phone hacking affair Henry Dudeney (1857–1930), author and mathematician Alice Dudeney (1866–1945), author and diarist Roger Dean...
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Puzzles and Other Curious Problems is a 1907 mathematical puzzle book by Henry Dudeney. The first part of the book features a series of puzzles based on the...
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appeared in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the works of Henry Dudeney, Sam Loyd, Édouard Lucas, Professor Hoffmann, and Émile Fourrey, among...
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"fast-talking snake oil salesman". He collaborated with puzzler Henry Dudeney for a while, but Dudeney broke off the correspondence and accused Loyd of stealing...
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theory and prefigured the idea of topology. The famous British puzzler Henry Dudeney added several puzzles to this category.[citation needed] Transportation...
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1998 as A Lewes Diary: 1916–1944 describing her life in Lewes with Henry Dudeney before and during the interwar years. Lewes also features in a range...
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earliest puzzle containing a complete set of pentominoes appeared in Henry Dudeney's book, The Canterbury Puzzles, published in 1907. The earliest tilings...
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pectoris. Preliminary report. Am Heart J 1959; 27:375. For example Henry Dudeney noted in his 1917 Amusements in Mathematics solution 129 that Pell's...
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Leonard Dudeney (1875–1956) was an English newspaper editor, journalist and confidant of Ramsay MacDonald. He was acting and assistant editor in Shanghai...
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that this law had earlier been discovered by many others, including Henry Dudeney (1917). 1983: Two separate research groups led by American Robert Gallo...
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required) E.M. Delafield (1890–1943), author Alice Dudeney (1866–1945), author and short story writer Henry Dudeney (1857–1930), author Maureen Duffy (born 1933)...
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Zealand, f/p) Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (1857–1944, England, p/f/nf) Henry Dudeney (1857–1930, England, nf) Tessa Duder (born 1940, N Zealand, ch/f/d)...
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