The Symmetries of Things by Heidi Burgiel, John H. Conway, Chaim Goodman-Strauss

448 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction art mathematics science informative slow-paced
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Start with a single shape. Repeat it in some way--translation, reflection over a line, rotation around a point--and you have created symmetry. Symmetry is a fundamental phenomenon in art, science, and nature that has been captured, described, and ...

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