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About
Sudoku Sam
The difficulty of solving even a ‘simple’ Sudoku captivated my interest. Soon I discovered that the prevailing strategy for solving Sudoku rested on a positivist, logic-only philosophy.
Sudoku Sam
I went college expecting to become a doctor. I majored in zoology but spent my junior year studying in Lyon, France, which delayed my graduation by a year – BS in zoology (1971). By then my interest had shifted to neurobiology. Due to the prevailing political environment of North Carolina and my need for financial support, I entered the Department of Pharmacology. My experiences there exposed me to molecular biology and biophysical chemistry. After getting my PhD in 1977, I began a postdoctoral stent at the Johns Hopkins University in the understated Biology Department. I felt this direction was too confining so I shifted gears and enrolled in Life Chiropractic College in Marietta GA and moved my growing family there. I soon became a professor there and taught Biochemistry for four and a half years while earning my DC degree in 1987. A couple of years later I became the Director of Research at another college in the San Francisco area. In 1996 I published an article titled: The Behavior and Interpretation of the Kappa Statistic: Resolution of Two Paradoxes. In 2006 I retired and very shortly thereafter discovered Sudoku – more specifically, I discovered a Sudoku magazine while on vacation in St. Barth. The difficulty of solving even a ‘simple’ Sudoku captivated my interest. Soon I discovered that the prevailing strategy for solving Sudoku rested on a positivist, logic-only philosophy. This inspired me to resolve all pertinent issues and present to the world a system based on a clear understanding of logic and reason.
Book Inspiration
My father knew how things worked. He was a master watchmaker in North Carolina. He inspired me to know and understand how things work. Working through my first, simple, Sudoku was a truly humbling experience. I was bound and determined to figure out how it worked. Since I was not making much progress at first, I decided to see what the ‘experts’ said about how to proceed. What I found was truly repulsive. The centerpiece of what I now call the Standard Strategy is the possibility matrix in which every vacant cell had small digits (erroneously called numbers) inscribed revealing every possible option or ‘candidate’ for that cell. In addition, they took a positivist approach by suggesting that every Sudoku could be solved by logic and logic alone. Using the possibility matrix literally made me dizzy, but resorting to a positivist approach made me angry. It was simply untrue! That is when I resolved to write a book that set matters straight for Sudoku.
