Gordon F. Royle is a professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at

The University of Western Australia University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Crawley, a suburb in the City of Perth local government area. UWA was established in 1911 by ...

. Royle is the co-author (with Chris Godsil) of the book ''Algebraic Graph Theory'' (Springer Verlag, 2001, ). Royle is also known for his research into the

mathematics of Sudoku Mathematics can be used to study Sudoku puzzles to answer questions such as "How many filled Sudoku grids are there?", "What is the minimal number of clues in a valid puzzle?" and "In what ways can Sudoku grids be symmetric?" through the use o ...

and his search for the Sudoku puzzle with the smallest number of entries that has a unique solution. Royle earned his Ph.D. in 1987 from the

University of Western Australia University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Crawley, Western Australia, Crawley, a suburb in the City of Perth local government area. UW ...

under the supervision of

Cheryl Praeger Cheryl Elisabeth Praeger (born 7 September 1948, Toowoomba, Queensland) is an Australian mathematician. Praeger received BSc (1969) and MSc degrees from the University of Queensland (1974), and a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 197 ...

and Brendan McKay.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Royle, Gordon Living people Australian mathematicians Graph theorists University of Western Australia alumni Academic staff of the University of Western Australia Year of birth missing (living people)