Walter Trump

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Walter Trump is a German mathematician. He is known for discovering results on recreational mathematics.

He has credits from square packing problem and magic tile problem. In 1979 he discovered the optimal known packing of 11 equal squares in a larger square,[1] and in 2003, along with Christian Boyer, devoloped the first known magic cube of order 5.[2]

Walter Trump works as a teacher for mathematics and physics at Gymnasium Stein.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Konhauser, Joseph D. E.; Daniel J. Velleman, S. Wagon (1996). Which way did the bicycle go?: and other intriguing mathematical mysteries. Cambridge University Press. p. 105. ISBN 9780883853252. 
  2. ^ Niederman, Derrick (2009). Number freak: from 1 to 200— the hidden language of numbers revealed. Penguin. p. 63. ISBN 9780399534591. 


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