{"id":2418,"date":"2011-11-13T22:24:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T02:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=2418"},"modified":"2011-11-13T22:24:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T02:24:09","slug":"sudoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/11\/13\/sudoku\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudoku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2685\" title=\"Web Sudoku\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2011\/11\/logo-108x108.gif\" alt=\"Web Sudoku\" width=\"108\" height=\"108\" \/>As many of you may know, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sudoku\" target=\"_blank\">Sudoku is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle.<\/a>\u00a0 I recently found an online database of Sudoku puzzles at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.websudoku.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.websudoku.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sudoku has a great deal of math involved in it.\u00a0If you are interested in reading about the mathematics behind Sudoku, you might want to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Taking-Sudoku-Seriously-Behind-Popular\/dp\/0199756562\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1321237234&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Taking Sudoku Seriously: The Math Behind the World&#8217;s Most Popular Pencil Puzzle<\/em>\u00a0by Jason Rosenhouse and Laura Taalman<\/a>. I have not yet read the book myself, but have heard great reviews on it. Let me know what you think about it if you have read it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you may know, Sudoku is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle.\u00a0 I recently found an online database of Sudoku puzzles at\u00a0http:\/\/www.websudoku.com\/. Sudoku has a great deal of math involved in it.\u00a0If you are interested in reading about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/11\/13\/sudoku\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/11\/13\/sudoku\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics-in-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3gbww-sudoku","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}