Ah, memories, memories. For September 2010’s issue I wrote about how to solve Rubik’s Cube, and it allowed me to revisit my days at Kings’, London, when I first came across the puzzle. Back in those days (and probably even now), the Maths Society at Kings had a fun weekend away in Windsor Great Park where we’d have talks about recreational mathematics. (Yes, I know, many people don’t think “recreational” and “mathematics” can be in the same sentence, but bear with me here.) Of course, it was an occasion for too much drinking and smoking and playing 3-card brag and staying up all night, but in 1979 we discovered a puzzle that pushed all that aside: Rubik’s Cube. […]
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