Books

My books

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Published

The book Distribution theorems of L-functions , Pitman Research Notes, vol 142, 1986, is out of print. For a brief description, click here . The (known) errata list is here.
A text book Linear algebra with applications, written with George Nakos, was published by Brooks Cole/ITP. The (known) errata list for the 2nd printing is here. This is now out of print and will not be reprinted. It is available at amazon.com (as of Oct, 2003).
Coding Theory and Cryptography: From Enigma and Geheimschreiber to Quantum Theory, which I edited, is published by Springer-Verlag. This is now out of print and will not be reprinted (as far as I know). It is not available at amazon.com but is available at a few other places online (buy.com and amazon.de, as of Oct, 2003).
Adventures in group theory: Rubik's Cube, Merlin's Machine, and Other Mathematical Toys , Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, April, 2002 (All royalties go directly to charity - EII.) The (known) errata list is here.
Review in MAA Online.
Review in American Scientist.
A second edition, co-written with Jaap Scherphuis is planned. The publication date is possibly late 2007 or early 2008.
Applied abstract algebra, written with Rick Kreminski and JoAnn Turisco, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Spring 2004 (All royalties go directly to charity, again.) See also the other book's web pages: at USNA and at Texas A+M. The (known) errata list is here.

Unpublished:

SM485c lecture notes, Mathematics of the Rubik's cube (283 pages): dvi, pdf, ps. The dvi, pdf, ps file of a set of notes which uses group theory to describe mathematical models for many mechanical permutation puzzles such as the Rubik's cube. It is an early version of the ``Adventures in group theory'' book above. The index is separate. For a compressed file of the latex source and jpg illustrations, download cube.zip (760K).
Thanks to Roberto Lopez Gulliver, there is now a compressed ps file with all the figures: cube0_ps.gz. On his page there is also a compress latex file containing the figures as jpgs.

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