The applet below was written by Werner Randelshofer (CubeTwister). Since this cube is really just the 3×3×3 Rubik's cube with all the edge pieces removed then our notation, and analysis, of Rubik's ...

It may be surprising to learn that very little memorization is required to solve Rubik's Cube. In fact, it can be solved using only four types of move sequences: cycling 3 corner pieces (for permuting ...

On this day, fifth-grader Manny was confronting his fears – something he'd even had nightmares about in the past week. Today ...

“Think about a Rubik’s cube. It’s a very simple group with ... Gukov’s team is now investigating other longstanding math problems to help them develop the algorithms.

“It gives us new ways to think about it.” Gukov compared the math problems to the Rubik’s Cube. “Can you take this scrambled, complicated Rubik’s Cube and get it back to its original stat ...