TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joyner,David
TI  - Adventures in group theory: Rubik's Cube, Merlin's machine, and other mathematical toys 
SN  - 0801869455 (alk. paper)
AV  - QA174.2 .J69 2002
U1  - 512/.2 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Group theory
KW  - Mathematical recreations
N1  - 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
ER  -