Paul Lukacs (born Lukács Pàl; Hebrew: פאול לוקאץ'; 23 April 1918 – 1982)[1] was a Hungarian-Israeli mathematician, analyst and composer of problems in the "play of the hand" at contract bridge.
[2] Lukacs was born in Rimavská Sobota, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia) in 1918, the son of Friedrich Lukács and Katrine Grünwald.
[2] Singe dummy problems simulate the task that declarer faces in playing a bridge hand.
In some single dummy problems the solver is required to look for a line of play which works for all possible distributions, while in others he has to find the plan which has the maximum success probability.
His most lasting contribution to bridge literature was as co-author of Spotlight on Card Play (with Robert Darvas), the first post-war problem collection to highlight expert thought processes.