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Rubik considers university and the education it afforded him as the decisive event which shaped his life. From 1967 to 1971, Rubik attended the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts and was in the Faculty of Interior Architecture and Design. From 1962 to 1967, Rubik attended the Budapest University of Technology where he became a member of the Architecture Faculty. Following his cube's popularity, Rubik opened a studio to develop designs in 1984 among its products was another popular puzzle toy, Rubik's Magic.įrom 1958 to 1962, Rubik specialized in sculpture at the Secondary School of Fine and Applied Arts.

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Approximately 50 books were published describing how to solve the puzzle of Rubik's Cube.

By 1980 Rubik's Cube was marketed throughout the world, and over 100 million authorized units, with an estimated 50 million unauthorized imitations, were sold, mostly during its subsequent three years of popularity. It proved a useful tool for teaching algebraic group theory, and in late 1977 Konsumex, Hungary's state trading company, began marketing it. One of these was a prototype of his cube, made of 27 wooden blocks it took Rubik a month to solve the problem of the cube. While a professor of design at the academy, he pursued his hobby of building geometric models. Rubik studied sculpture at the Academy of Applied Arts and Design in Budapest and architecture at the Technical University, also in Budapest. No work was unworthy or undeserving for him. There was nothing that could prevent him from doing what he decided or bringing a project to a completion, if necessary even with his own hands. Both figuratively and literally he was a person capable of 'moving a hill'. Ernő Rubik has stated that: īeside him I learned a lot about work in the sense of a value-creating process which has a target, and a positive result too. His extensive work and expertise in this area gained him an international reputation as an expert in his field.

His father, Ernő, was a highly respected engineer of gliders. He has stated in almost every interview that he got his inspiration from his father. His father, Ernő Rubik, was a flight engineer at the Esztergom aircraft factory, and his mother, Magdolna Szántó, was a poet. Rubik is involved with several organizations such as Beyond Rubik's Cube, the Rubik Learning Initiative and the Judit Polgar Foundation all of whose aim is to engage students in science, mathematics, and problem solving at a young age.Įrnő Rubik was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 13 July 1944, during World War II, and has lived all of his life in Hungary. While Rubik became famous for inventing the Rubik's Cube and his other puzzles, much of his recent work involves the promotion of science in education. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including the Rubik's Cube (1974), Rubik's Magic, Rubik's Magic: Master Edition, and Rubik's Snake.

Puzzle designer of Rubik's Cube, inventor, architect, professorĮrnő Rubik ( Hungarian: born 13 July 1944) is a Hungarian inventor, architect, and professor of architecture.

1967–1971 Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts Interior Architecture and Design.

1962–1967 University of Technology, Budapest (architecture).