Gordon Royle

{{short description|Australian mathematician}}

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Gordon F. Royle is a professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Western Australia.[http://school.maths.uwa.edu.au/~gordon Gordon Royle's Homepage at the School of Mathematics and Statistics]

Royle is the co-author (with Chris Godsil) of the book Algebraic Graph Theory (Springer Verlag, 2001, {{ISBN|0-387-95220-9}}).

Royle is also known for his research into the mathematics of Sudoku and his search for the Sudoku puzzle with the smallest number of entries that has a unique solution.[http://school.maths.uwa.edu.au/~gordon/sudokumin.php Gordon Royle's Minimum Sudoku Page]

Royle earned his Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of Western Australia under the supervision of Cheryl Praeger and Brendan McKay.{{mathgenealogy|name=Gordon F. Royle|id=35947}}