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100 1 _aJoyner, David,
_d1959-
245 1 0 _aAdventures in group theory :
_bRubik's Cube, Merlin's machine, and other mathematical toys /
_cDavid Joyner.
260 _aBaltimore :
_bJohns Hopkins University Press,
_c2002.
300 _axv, 262 p. :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 251-256) and index.
505 0 _aChapter 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.
650 0 _aGroup theory.
650 0 _aMathematical recreations.
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