Ivan Moscovich (Ada, June 14, 1926) is a Yugoslavian commander of puzzles and puzzles. He has also written dozens of books on, among other things, maths. biography
Moscovich is of Jewish origin and grew up in Novi Sad. His father was a Hungarian painter, who lived in Yugoslavia in 1922. He set up a photo studio called Photo Ivan. He was murdered by Hungarian fascists during the Second World War. Moscovich himself was deported by the Germans to Auschwitz in 1943, where he stayed with his mother for two years. During his stay in one of the workplaces he laid out railways. After the British army had freed him and his mother, he spent a year in Sweden to recover. After that he worked again in the railways for the Yugoslav Transport Ministry. For six months, he was in charge of a group of German prisoners of war.
To conquer the traumatic memories, Moscovich designed his first puzzles in 1949. He was inspired by the work of Leonhard Euler, a Swiss nature and mathematician from the eighteenth century. In the early 1950s, Moscovich moved to Israel, where he worked as a researcher for the Ministry of Defense. In 1955 he founded a science museum in Tel Aviv. He has worked for the toy manufacturer Mattel. From 1986 to 2002, Moscovich lived in London, after which he moved to Nijmegen. The Great Brain Breaker's composite book was sold worldwide over a million times.
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