Twenty years of Rubik's cube addiction...



Twenty years of Rubik's cube addiction...

...has just borne fruit :D My article Abstracting the Rubik's Cube is in the April issue of Mathematical Association of America's Math Horizons, and one of the Boy's surface puzzles made the cover. Working with the editor David Richeson was a great experience!

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/umho20/25/4

Grab one of my free 50 copies at the following link - make sure to get the pdf with all the images: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/cc7qejfNI5rvbKJK9gKV/full

Update
My free copies are gone, but the preprint will always be available at: http://roice3.org/papers/abstracting_rubiks_cube.pdf

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