Ernő Rubik
b. 1944 · Hungary · Engineering, Mathematics
His cube became a global object lesson in group theory.
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Inherited from1
- Mimar Sinan
1489 – 1588 · Engineering
Hungarian and Ottoman traditions aside, Sinan's modular spatial logic is the ancestor of structural puzzle design.
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- Tim Berners-Lee
1955 · Computing, Engineering
Both turned a formal structure into a mass artefact people learn by handling.
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