Timeline for Cool problems to impress students with group theory
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| May 1, 2015 at 22:00 | comment | added | LSpice | People seem frequently to re-discover (or re-exposit) the connection here: ams.org/mathscinet/search/… . The (chronologically) first result that search turns up is an AMM article from 1956! | |
| May 10, 2014 at 5:44 | comment | added | Marcus Johnson | Another is 'Music and Mathematics', ed. Fauvel, Flood, & Wilson. "Ringers had been ringing leads of Plain Bob for many years before matheaticians came and told them that they were actually ringing cosets." | |
| Jan 6, 2012 at 7:30 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | Another book discussing this practice is "Adventures in group theory" by D. Joyner. The book explores group theory through permutation games (Rubik's cube, the 15 puzzle, ...), which I suppose also qualify as "cool" uses of the theory. | |
| Feb 4, 2010 at 17:49 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | Quite interesting. Wikipedia tells me that in 1963 the full set of permutations on 8 bells was played, for 18 hours (!) | |
| Feb 4, 2010 at 17:37 | history | answered | Victor Miller | CC BY-SA 2.5 |