Book:David Joyner/Adventures in Group Theory

Subject Matter

 * Group Theory

Contents

 * Preface
 * Acknowledgments
 * Where to begin ...
 * 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
 * Bibliography
 * Index