Howard Garns
Howard yarn (* 2. March 1905 in Connersville, Indiana ; † 6. October 1989 in Indianapolis ) is the inventor of the number puzzle Number Place , which is now under the name Sudoku is known.
Life
In his youth, Garns moved from Connersville to Indianapolis, where he attended Indianapolis Technical High School . From 1922 he studied at the University of Illinois and graduated in 1926 with a Bachelor of Science in architectural engineering .
Then Garns was employed in his father's architectural office, WH Garns, before becoming a captain in the United States Army Corps of Engineers during World War II .
After the war he worked for the Daggett architectural firm.
On October 6, 1989, Garns died of cancer. He was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis on October 10th.
Services
In the May 1979 issue of the puzzle magazine Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games , a new number puzzle called Number Place appeared. But since the author's line had not been printed with the riddle, it was unclear who wrote the riddle. Will Shortz , a puzzle inventor , found that Garn's name was printed as an employee in all editions of the puzzle booklet that contained a number-place puzzle and was missing from all others.
George Wiley and Robert Hindmann, two draftsmen from the architecture firm, remembered that Garns had worked on a “crossword puzzle with numbers” but had kept it a secret.
Garns saw Number Place becoming popular in Japan under the name Su Doku . But he died before it became internationally famous.
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Arp: 1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think . Simon & Schuster , New York 2013, ISBN 9781476705729 , p. 868
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yarn, Howard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Sudoku finder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Connersville, Indiana |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1989 |
| Place of death | Indianapolis |