I gave a talk on the Rubik's Cube at a Math/Science/Technology conference at Exeter Academy at the end of June. The talk is 50 minutes long. I'll be giving some version of this talk again in the near future so if you watch, please let me know what you liked and what you didn't think worked so well.
Here is a rough outline:
my introduction to the cube
history of the cube
the cube in media
solving the cube using commutators
solving the cube using Fridrich (with some demonstrations)
FMC and God's number
some videos of a few current world records
There were about 50 people in attendance and the talk was very well received. They really got into the videos at the end!
Part 1 of the talk is here (youtube limits clips to 15 minutes in length):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1H2J80ZwD0
Many thanks to Anders Bogan for volunteering to get the raw video file into a Youtube friendly format. He also cut it into chunks and added links to the subsequent parts at the end of each clip. Fancy!
If someone feels like embedding the talk here on the forum, please do so.
Ian
Here is a rough outline:
my introduction to the cube
history of the cube
the cube in media
solving the cube using commutators
solving the cube using Fridrich (with some demonstrations)
FMC and God's number
some videos of a few current world records
There were about 50 people in attendance and the talk was very well received. They really got into the videos at the end!
Part 1 of the talk is here (youtube limits clips to 15 minutes in length):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1H2J80ZwD0
Many thanks to Anders Bogan for volunteering to get the raw video file into a Youtube friendly format. He also cut it into chunks and added links to the subsequent parts at the end of each clip. Fancy!
If someone feels like embedding the talk here on the forum, please do so.
Ian