Percy Alexander MacMahon [SEP] place of death
Percy Alexander MacMahon
Percy Alexander MacMahon (born 26 September 1854, Sliema, British Malta – 25 December 1929, Bognor Regis, England) was a mathematician, especially noted in connection with the partitions of numbers and enumerative combinatorics.
Early life.
Percy MacMahon was born in Malta to a British military family. His father was a colonel at the time, retired in the rank of the brigadier.
MacMahon attended the Proprietary School in Cheltenham. At the age of 14 he won a
Junior Scholarship to Cheltenham
it is easy to find large numbers of ways to place substantial numbers of pieces on the board whose edges all match, making it seem that the puzzle is easy. However, given the low expected number of possible solutions, it is presumably astronomically unlikely that any given partial solution will lead to a complete solution.
See also.
- Percy Alexander MacMahon
- Satisfiability problem
- TetraVex
- Wang tile
External links.
- The homepage for Eternity II
- Open Source Matlab Eternity II Solver