"Mastering Rubik's Cube" — Don Taylor, Vintage Penguin Paperback, 1980s

The solution to the 20th century's most amazing puzzle! Mastering Rubik's Cube by Don Taylor, senior lecturer in pure mathematics at the University of Sydney (Ph.D., Oxford, 1972). Published by Penguin Books at the height of the Rubik's Cube craze.

Taylor first encountered the cube — then known as the Büvös Kocka (Hungarian Magic Cube) — in 1978 while working at the College of Technology in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He went on to use it as a teaching aid for group theory, and this book promises to get you solving the cube in under five minutes.

• Author: Don Taylor, Ph.D. (Oxford), University of Sydney
• Published by Penguin Books (Owl Book)
• Original price: $1.95 USA / $2.75 Canada
• ISBN: 0 03 059941 5
• Covers solving strategies, pretty patterns, and advanced techniques
• Era: Early 1980s

Condition Notes

Cover shows wear — scuffing and some surface peeling consistent with age and use. Interior pages are in good shape and fully readable throughout.

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