I guess everybody knows the Rubik Cube. The cute and inspiring, logical game of the '80s. I also had one but to be honest I didn't know how to solve it. Only when I replaced the stickers on it::)
The Rubik Cube was invented in Hungary by Ernő Rubik in 1974. The cube itself is a 3 dimensional puzzle. A geometrically perfect cube created from 27 small cubes. Each faces of the large cube has different colors and I could solve perfectly how to mess it up by turning its parts vertically or horizontally. The problem started only when I wanted to match the colors again.:)
In Hungary the Cube was introduced in 1977 under the name Bűvös Kocka (Magic Cube) and became immediately extremely popular. They introduced it in 1980 on different international toy fairs and that was the start of the global carrier of the Rubik Cube.
The Rubik Cube is a creative way to combine mathematical algorithms with 3d solutions which is very useful in architects for example.
About the inventor:
Ernő Rubik was born in Budapest, Hungary, July 13, 1944, during World War II. His father, Ernő Rubik was a flight engineer at the Esztergom airplane factory, his mother a poet. He graduated from the Technical University, Budapest (Műszaki Egyetem) in 1967 as an architectural engineer and began postgraduate studies in sculpting and interior architecture. From 1971 to 1975 he worked as an architect, then became a professor at the Budapest College of Applied Arts (Iparművészeti Főiskola). He has spent all his life in Hungary.
"Space always intrigued me, with its incredibly rich possibilities, space alteration by (architectural) objects, objects' transformation in space (sculpture, design), movement in space and in time, their correlation, their repercussion on mankind, the relation between man and space, the object and time. I think the CUBE arose from this interest, from this search for expression and for this always more increased acuteness of these thoughts..."
Presently he is mainly working on video game development and architectural topics in his own company called Rubik Studios. (source: wikipedia)
Mr. Rubik is still very active but he is not a media star type of man. He avoid any kind of media awareness, you can't see him in talk shows and in general he is hardly approachable. To me he is a serious engineer and spite of the popularity of his name he remain what he was. A thinking man.
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