The Hungarian Erno Rubik was looking for an artistic design in which to dump his interest in three -dimensional forms when he devised some wooden blocks united by rubber and clips that ended up crashing as ‘magic cube’.
50 years later, his invention has become a mathematical object, pop icon and passion of thousands of people in the world.
According to an agency report EFEEditorial five inks has just published in Spanish “The Rubik’s Cube”a tribute to half a century since the creation of a first 3 × 3 prototype in the 1974 communist Budapest.
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Then, Rubik improved it until the current structure was patented: a axis mechanism that allows you to turn blocks until each face has a single color.
Although the resolution record, established by the American Max Park in the Pride In Long Beach 2023 championship, is set at 3.13 seconds, Rubik took a month to order his invention for the first time.
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It was still made of wood and did not have the colors now familiar, just brands.
The same creator did not know at the beginning if it would work, although the investigation of a team of mathematicians determined years later that any disorderly cube can be ordered by a maximum of twenty movements, the report points out.
Of the stratosphere to the deepest of the ocean
Hungarian designer, professor and architect writes the prologue of this book, in which he speaks in the name of the cube as his father, to explain that he has been “practically everywhere: from lost villages in the jungle to elegant offices” and that They have taken it “to the stratosphere and the deepest of the ocean.”
Narrated through fifty key moments and with numerous illustrations, the author Roland Hall includes stories that account for the presence of the cube in extreme expeditions and how it has been used to explore creativity and learning.
43 trillions of possible variations in each cube
The book includes curiosities such as the 43 trillions of possible variations in each buckets, the 450 million cubes sold worldwide, the specimen of gold and precious stones that are worth a million euros or its appearance in many series of series, movies or songs : Of The Simpsons to The Big Bang Theorythrough themes and video clips of Genesis or Taylor Swift.
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There are also some chapters enshrined to learn the simplest algorithms to solve the puzzle (the ‘God’ is the shortest, the ‘devil’ the longest), along with tricks to make it faster -including the use of lubricants for Accelerate the movement- in case someone gives themselves to the world championships that have been held since 1982.
It can also serve to emulate “Famous Cubers” as artists Justin Biever, Will Smith or Chris Pratt, capable of solving it in 90 seconds the first and in less than 60 the two seconds, as registered. On the other side, actor David Hasselhoff admitted without tapujos that he had never been able to finish it, he points out EFE.
