Anders Lundman: Rubik’s Platonic solids
Time: Fri 2013-12-06 13.15 - 14.15
Location: Room 3733, Lindstedtsvägen 25, 7th floor, Department of Mathematics, KTH
Participating: Anders Lundman, KTH
The well-known puzzle Rubik’s cube can be described using group theory. I will generalise the "Rubik’s puzzle" to any Platonic solid and describe the resulting puzzles via group theory. A terribly inefficient but conceptually simple method for solving the puzzle will also be given as a by-product of the group theoretic interpretation. The talk is based on a paper by Edward Turner and Karen Gold.
All participants are encouraged to bring their own cube.