{"id":753,"date":"2012-08-29T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=753"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:28:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:28:18","slug":"mathematical-theory-and-the-rubiks-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/mathematical-theory-and-the-rubiks-cube\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical theory and the Rubik\u2019s Cube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/08\/RubikCube.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-754\" title=\"RubikCube\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/08\/RubikCube-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a>The 2012 World Cube Association\u2019s U.S. National Championship was held at the beginning of August in Las Vegas.\u00a0 A California teenager, Deven Nadudvari, set a record by using one hand to solve 5 different 3-by-3 Rubik\u2019s Cubes in an average of 14.86 seconds each.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can use Rubik\u2019s Cube to teach engineering, you can use it to teach mathematics, and you can use it to talk about the interplay between design and engineering and mathematics and creativity,\u201c according to Paul Hoffman, president of the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, who is organizing an international <a href=\"http:\/\/lsc.org\/cube\/\">exhibition in 2014<\/a> that will celebrate the cube\u2019s 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/\">Montreal Gazette<\/a>, 8\/11\/2012, Quenqua)<\/p>\n<p>The Rubik\u2019s Cube has been used to teach Group Theory in mathematics.\u00a0 For more information about group theory and the cube, check out any of <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca.proxy1.library.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-a&amp;find_code=WRD&amp;request=rubik%27s+cube+group+theory\">these books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/verbatim\/145373385\/\">allie<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2012 World Cube Association\u2019s U.S. National Championship was held at the beginning of August in Las Vegas.\u00a0 A California teenager, Deven Nadudvari, set a record by using one hand to solve 5 different 3-by-3 Rubik\u2019s Cubes in an average &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/mathematical-theory-and-the-rubiks-cube\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[86,77],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-mathematics","tag-science-in-popular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3115,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}