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The symmetries of things / John H. Conway; Heidi Burgiel; Chaim Goodman-Strauss
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: Wellesley, Mass. : AK Peters, c 2008Description: XVIII, 426 S. : Ill., graph. Darst. ; 25 cmISBN:- 1568812205
- 9781568812205
- 516/.1 22
- 516.1
- QA174.7.S96
Contents:
Summary: Symmetries -- Planar patterns -- The magic theorem -- The spherical patterns -- Frieze patterns -- Why the magic theorems work -- Euler's map theorem -- Classification of surfaces -- Orbifolds -- Presenting presentations -- Twofold colorations -- Threefold colorings of plane patterns -- Other primefold colorings -- Searching for relations -- Types of tilings -- Abstract groups -- Introducing hyperbolic groups -- More on hyperbolic groups -- Archimedean tilings -- Generalized Schläfli symbols -- Naming Archimedian and Catalan polyhedra and tilings -- The 35 "prime" space groups -- Objects with prime symmetry -- Flat universes -- The 184 composite space groups -- Higher stillPPN: PPN: 550561854
Symmetries -- Planar patterns -- The magic theorem -- The spherical patterns -- Frieze patterns -- Why the magic theorems work -- Euler's map theorem -- Classification of surfaces -- Orbifolds -- Presenting presentations -- Twofold colorations -- Threefold colorings of plane patterns -- Other primefold colorings -- Searching for relations -- Types of tilings -- Abstract groups -- Introducing hyperbolic groups -- More on hyperbolic groups -- Archimedean tilings -- Generalized Schläfli symbols -- Naming Archimedian and Catalan polyhedra and tilings -- The 35 "prime" space groups -- Objects with prime symmetry -- Flat universes -- The 184 composite space groups -- Higher still..
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