Stewart Coffin

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Stewart T. Coffin (* around 1930 ) is an American game inventor. He is considered the world's most famous puzzle developer . 140 original designs of complex puzzles go back to Coffin.

biography

Stewart Coffin studied electrical engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and graduated in 1953. He worked in the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and built computers there from 1953 to 1958. In 1964 he left computer development to build canoes and other boats. He and his family moved to a farm near Lincoln , Massachusetts.

Coffin now lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he moved in 2011. He is the father of three daughters.

AP art

Coffin calls the development of his polygonal forms "AP-ART", sculptural art that comes apart (German: "plastic art that goes to pieces"). He develops complex abstract shapes from joined wooden puzzle pieces.

Coffin's most complicated puzzle to date is "Jupiter". It is a dissected, castle-like triactahedron with twelve identical bars. Coffin glued the mold together from 60 individual pieces. In order to achieve the desired optical effect, he used six woods with contrasting grain.

Publications (selection)

  • Geometric puzzle design (2007)
  • The puzzling world of polyhedral dissections (1990)
  • Puzzle craft (1985)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The man behind the puzzles. In: The Norman Transcript. Retrieved June 9, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Jack Botermans, Jerry Slocum: Puzzle of the world . Weltbild, Augsburg 2005, ISBN 3-8289-4949-5 , p. 84 ff .
  3. ↑ Stewart Coffin. Retrieved June 9, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Coffin, Stewart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coffin, Stewart T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American game inventor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1930