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Much More Than a Puzzle: Sudoku

Although mathematical puzzles may be related to complex mathematical theories, they are so large and vivid that even an ordinary person can easily understand it. Just like Sudoku

The fun of the turning point in the history of mathematics begins in 2000 BC on the shores of China's Yellow River. According to legend, the Emperor Yu saw a turtle coming out of the river. It is a sacred turtle with black and white spots under the belly. Speckles show the first nine numbers and the sum of these numbers (row, column and corner to corner) is 15. The Chinese call this square Lo Shu and believe that it symbolizes the inner balance of the universe. We also define it as the magic square nowadays.

Fun-filled hours can be spent playing with magic squares and marveling at the harmony of patterns. Perhaps for this reason many people, whether or not professional mathematicians since the 18th century, have gone into the epidemic of creating a magic frame.

One of them was the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler. However, he took the job a step further and created the Latin Square, which is a special kind of magic square where each number is used once in every row and in every column.

How could he have known that these Latin squares would inspire a puzzle that we wouldn't drop Bu

Let me introduce you to Maki Kaji. He manages a magazine in Japan that specializes in number puzzles. Kaji describes himself as someone who uses numbers as an instrument of his art to entertain people. Maki is writing ”The Father of Sudoku’ on Kaji's business card.

Maki Kaji
Maki Kaji
The idea came to mind when you were reviewing an American puzzle magazine. Kaji, who doesn't understand many questions because she doesn't speak English, came across a puzzle of interesting looking numbers while she was going to leave the magazine.

This is a Latin square puzzle consisting of numbers from 9 to 9 in 9 x 9 format under the title bulmaca Digit Places “. For each solution to be filled in by empty frames with the help of logical inferences, provided that it is used only once in a row or a column. Kaji solved the puzzle and was very excited because it was the kind of discovery that he wanted to put in his new magazine.

In fact, this puzzle enthusiast, Howard Garns, invented a new form of Kaji's arrangement and arrangement of numbers with symmetrical stencils around the scale just like in square puzzles. This version is called "Su Doku" which means "a figure should only be seen once" in Japanese.

Although Kaji included this puzzle in his first magazines in 1980, he unfortunately could not see the expected attention. The fortune of his puzzle changed in 1997 when a New Zealander, Wayne Gould, entered a bookstore in Tokyo.

If someone who doesn't speak English and only speaks Japanese can understand the Digit Location, only an English-speaking person can understand Sudoku. Indeed it did. Also interested in computer programming as an amateur, Gould has solved the puzzle and decided to write a sudoku program to do so much more. It took him six years to complete the program, which he started writing in a few days.

Wayne Gould

All this effort was not wasted, of course, he is now a billionaire Tüm

Returning to the topic, it was not easy to convince newspapers to publish this puzzle, but in 2004 the Daily Mail began to publish the Daily Telegraph puzzle and all the other newspapers that didn't want to stay back in the fury dön

In 2005, six of the top 50 best-selling books in the United States were featured in sudoku. At the end of 2006, sudoku was published in 60 countries and by the end of 2007 this number reached 90 countries.

This puzzle is based on calculations made secretly. Although Sudoku does not contain any arithmetic, its solution requires an abstract thought, template definition, logical inferences and an algorithmic production.

The success of Sudoku is a proof of a hundred years of intercultural obsession with numbers. Sudoku is a remarkable victory for mathematicians.

Reference: https://www.matematiksel.org/bir-bulmacadan-cok-daha-fazlasi-sudoku/
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