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...Cubism is a fad with many facets. American frivolity in the fine tradition of hula hoops and skateboards. Sillier than a corporate executive on a pogo stick, it could lighten the national blue period. But perhaps because the Museum of Modern Art has found the cube aesthetically comparable to Mondrian and Picasso, the trend has assumed and unbecoming air of profundity...
...cube has become the glossy media's darling metaphor for "interlocking challenges." Fitting square cubes in round holes, Time described the world of international arms sales as a Rubik's Cube. The domestic situation being presumably less puzzling to a chauvinistic nation, opportunities for the analogy's application abound mainly abroad Newsweek compared President Reagan's foreign policy problems to the cube. The world, its cover slickly suggested, may not conform to his red hats-white hats view. Thanks to the analogy, Reagan's inability to handle more than one face of foreign affairs at a time fell into place...
...cube has been used to illustrate group theory in Harvard courses, but it has not been used as the basis for an entire course, David B. Mumford, professor of Mathematics said yesterday. "It could possibly be the germ for a math tutorial, though," Mumford added...
Group theory involves transforming the positions of objects in space without changing their shapes, Howe said, adding that group theory gives structure and organization to the cube's 43 billion billion possible positions. The cube is solvable because this structure exists, Howe said...
Courses such as Howe's in the Yale seminar program are more flexible and experimental than courses in the regular curriculum. Howe said. If the cube seminar is successful, it could be turned into a regular course, he added...