[net.math] ``handbook of cubik math''

shallit@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Shallit) (10/18/84)

I recently saw an ad for a book called (something like) ``handbook
of cubik math'', by (?) David Singmaster.  It's supposed to talk
about the group theory underlying Rubik's cube.

Does anybody know where I can get a copy of this?  Mail replies to

... lbl-csam!oddjob!gargoyle!shallit
... shallit@UChicago.ARPA

thanks in advance,
Jeff

granvold@tymix.UUCP (Tom Granvold) (10/21/84)

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> I recently saw an ad for a book called (something like) ``handbook
> of cubik math'', by (?) David Singmaster.  It's supposed to talk
> about the group theory underlying Rubik's cube.
> 
> Does anybody know where I can get a copy of this?  Mail replies to

     I have not heard of Handbook of Cubik Math, but I do have a book
that fits your description. It covers the group structure of Rubik's
Cube. It is;

	    Notes On Rubik's Magic Cube
	    by David Singmaster, 1981, ISBN 0-89490-043-9
	    Enslow Publishers, Bloy Street and Ramsey Avenue,
	    Box 777, Hillside, New Jersey 07205

A good bookstore should be able to order it for you if it is still in print.
I have two other books that cover groups and the Rubik Cube type puzzles. 
They are;

	    Inside Rubik's Cube and Beyond, Christoph Bandelow,
	    ISBN 3-7643-3078-3, 1982,
	    Birkhauser, Boston

	    Puzzle It Out Cubes, Groups and Puzzles
	    John Ewing and Czes Kosniowski, 1982,
	    ISBN 0 521 28924 6
	    Cambridge University Press,
	    32 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022

Tom Granvold
Cupertino, Calif.
decvax!ucbvax!oliveb!tymix!granvold

carl@sdcsvax.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein) (11/03/84)

Handbook of Cubik Math		ISBN 0-89490-058-7	$9.95
Alexander H. Frey, Jr. & David Singmaster
Enslow Publishers
Bloy Street & Ramsey Ave.
Box 777
Hillside, NJ  07205