Boris A. Kordemsky (russian: Борис Анастасьевич Кордемский; 23 May 1907 – 29 March 1999) was a Russian
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
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and
educator
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. He is best known for his
popular science
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books and
mathematical puzzle
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s. He is the author of over 70 books and popular mathematics articles.
Kordemsky was born in
Kiknur
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,
Vyatka Governorate
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,
Russian Empire
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. He received his Ph.D. in education in 1956 and taught mathematics at several
Moscow
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colleges.
References
Age of Puzzles Biography by Will Shortz and Serhiy Grabarchuk
Mini Biography in Russian.
in
Kvant magazine (in Russian)
The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical RecreationsBy: Boris A. Kordemsky, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1972
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1907 births
1999 deaths
Puzzle designers
Recreational mathematicians
Mathematics popularizers
Russian science writers
Soviet non-fiction writers
Soviet male writers
20th-century Russian male writers
20th-century Russian mathematicians
Male non-fiction writers
Soviet mathematicians