He also has two grand children, Michaela and Zachary. Meffert was educated in Heidelberg Germany, Geelong Australia, Bern Switzerland and several Asian Countries. He has spent most of the last 30 years in Austral, Asia, doing extensive private research into human and animal nutrition and after his initial accidental entry into the Puzzle realm has become actively involved in education, promoting logical thinking in children. Uwe is also very involved in promoting preventive medicine, to live a longer more fully productive life. Please do not suppose that the only function of puzzles is to entertain.
Puzzles are a way of teaching mathematics.
Indeed, they are the best way to teach it. Fred Hoyle, the famous British astronomer, taught mathematics at Cambridge University for twenty years. In his book Ten Faces of the Universe he states in strong terms his belief that mathematics should never be taught at all. Students must learn for them selves. By solving puzzles.