Adventures in group theory : Rubik's Cube, Merlin's machine, and other mathematical toys / David Joyner.
Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.Description: xv, 262 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0801869455 (alk. paper)
- 0801869471 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 512/.2 21
- QA174.2 .J69 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-256) and index.
Chapter 1. Elementary my dear Watson -- Chapter 2. 'And you do addition?' -- Chapter 3. Bell ringing and other permutations -- Chapter 4. A procession of permutation puzzles -- Chapter 5. What's commutative and purple? -- Chapter 6. Welcome to the machine -- Chapter 7. 'God's algorithm' and graphs -- Chapter 8. Symmetry and the Platonic solids -- Chapter 9. The illegal cube group -- Chapter 10. Words which move -- Chapter 11. The (legal) Rubik's Cube group -- Chapter 12. Squares, two-faces, and other subgroups -- Chapter 13. Other Rubik-like puzzle groups -- Chapter 14. Crossing the rubicon -- Chapter 15. Some solution strategies -- Chapter 16. Coda: questions and other directions.
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