Joyner, David,  1959- <br/><br/>
Adventures in group theory :  Rubik's Cube, Merlin's machine, and other mathematical toys / 
David Joyner. 
 - Baltimore :  Johns Hopkins University Press,  2002. 
 - xv, 262 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-256) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0801869455 (alk. paper) 0801869471 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001050252 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA2-Y6212 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Group theory.<br/>Mathematical recreations.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA174.2  / .J69 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>512/.2