The Soma Cube, Again - Cleve Moler on Mathematics and Computing

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ContentsPiet HeinBill McKeemanThe original soma demoA new Soma demoSoftwarePiet HeinPiet Hein (1905-1996) was an extraordinary Danish inventor, mathematician, poet and philosopher. He invented the Soma Cube puzzle in 1933. I wrote a blog post about Hein and some of his creations several years ago, Soma Cube 2016.

The Soma Cube puzzle has seven pieces. One of them is a V-shaped piece made from three cubelets. The other six pieces are L, T, Z, R, S, and Y with four cubelets each. That's a total of 27 cubelets, just



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