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by James Hunt. Ernő Rubik was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944. You probably recognize his name, and that's because in 1974 he created the Rubik's Cube, the handheld puzzle that would go on to ...
Players have devoted many hours to beating the traditional six-sided, 54-cube version of the puzzle. Mastering the 4800-panel monstrosity featured in the video below would likely be a full-time job.
This article was originally published with the title “ Rubik's Cube Inspired Puzzles Demonstrate Math's 'Simple Groups' ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 299 No. 1 (July 2008) doi:10.1038 ...
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Quantum physics already feels like a puzzle, but now scientists have made it more literal. A team of mathematicians from the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a quantum Rubik's cube ...
Among this subset of keeners were Bram Cohen, a computer programmer (and the inventor of BitTorrent, a file-sharing protocol) who devises Rubik’s-like puzzles, such as the Maltese Gear Cube (in ...
Today's Google Doodle marks the 40th anniversary of the Rubik's Cube: the toy and/or puzzle that has rapidly infuriated and then eternally haunted almost person to have walked this fair Earth ...