Boris A. Kordemsky (russian: Борис Анастасьевич Кордемский; 23 May 1907 – 29 March 1999) was a Russian

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s. He is the author of over 70 books and popular mathematics articles. Kordemsky was born in

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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 Recreations
By: Boris A. Kordemsky, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1972 {{DEFAULTSORT:Kordemsky, Boris 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