God Plays Dice
A random walk through mathematics -- mostly through the random part.
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14 October 2008
An upper bound for the order of an element of the Rubik's cube group
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The maximum order of an element of the Rubik's cube group R is 462 might be 462, or might be 1260, or might be something else. Why? Th...
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09 June 2008
Rubik's deck of cards?
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By Igor Kriz and Paul Siegel, at Scientific American: Rubik's Cube Inspired Puzzles Demonstrate Math's "Simple Groups" . T...
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18 March 2008
Are most groups solvable?
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While trying to find a list of small groups (I needed to find a counterexample in a problem involving finite groups, and there would be some...
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20 October 2007
Homophony part two
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As at least two readers have pointed out, my claim that the triviality of the homophony group was part of the unwritten folklore is false. ...
The homophony group
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From Justin Roberts at UCSD , an old homework problem: "B: (Fun for all the family, ages 6-66...)The homophony group (of English) is th...
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