Articles and Papers about the math behind Rubik's Cube

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I'm very interested in the math behind the Rubik's Cube. I already found this: https://people.kth.se/~boij/kandexjobbVT11/Material/rubikscube.pdf

Are there some others texts that deal with the Rubik's Cube like a "Math thing"?

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David Singmaster published some of the earliest mathematical analysis of Rubik's cube in the early 1980s - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Singmaster for links.

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My go-to reference for the Rubik's Cube Group is Adventures in Group Theory: Rubik's Cube, Merlin's Machine, and Other Mathematical Toys by David Joyner