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...Rubik's Cube started out as a game. Then a cult developed and a rash of books told how to solve the puzzle. Now a Yale University professor is teaching a course on how to solve the multicolored cube...
Roger E. Howe '66, professor of mathematics at Yale, is teaching "A Seminar on the Magic Cube" there this semester. Twenty students are taking the newly offered class, Howe said yesterday...
...using the cube as a method of teaching mathematical group theory since the solution of the cube is based on it," Howe said...
Regretably, most other books this season don't deserve more than a cursory glance. With any of three books, you can divine the answer to the Rubik's cube puzzle; the people who twist the multi-colored square for hours every day can now spend more time reading about it. You Can Do The Cube, by a 12-year-old British whiz-kid who probably has no friends, is the most popular...
...next bin over at Woolworth's, boasting enough mark-down tags to make it clear this is not the next Rubik's Cube, are a pile of half-sized plastic swivel chairs. On each there's a label, like the ones men wear at conventions that say "Hi! I'm Bob, General Consolidated (ret.)" Only these say "Hi! I'm a swivel chair." Truth in advertising and all that...