From cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Tue Oct 1 14:32:11 1996 Return-Path: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Received: from curry.epilogue.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by curry.epilogue.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA14238; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 14:32:11 -0400 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 17:19:48 +0100 From: Riccardo Distasi Message-Id: <9610011619.AA00774@irsip.na.cnr.it> To: Cube-Lovers Subject: Intro to cube group theory? Dear mathematical cubologists, I am creeping on this list since a few months, but I have to admit that most of the more advanced mathematical technicalities are beyond my understanding, mainly because I lack knowledge of the basic facts and terminology about groups. All I studied about groups was a part of Birkhoff/McLaine's "Algebra" some 10 years ago. Is there any good reference on groups where I can educate myself? I would prefer freeware papers over costly and hard-to-find (at least in Italy) books. Does anybody have a hint for me? The aim of my training is that of learning about M-conjugacy and the Shamir algorithm, and to be able to follow the technical discussions about the Rubik cube that appear on this list. Riccardo -- Riccardo Distasi, ric@irsip.na.cnr.it