Book:David Joyner/Adventures in Group Theory/Second Edition

David Joyner: Adventures in Group Theory (2nd Edition)

Published $\text {2008}$, The Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN 0-8018-9012-8

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

Next

Errata

See http://www.wdjoyner.org/blog/2013/05/27/errata-list-for-adventures-in-group-theory-second-edition/.

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