When most of us think of symmetry, we think of looking into a mirror or playing patty-cake with a child. As Oxford don du Sautoy (The Music of the Primes) tells readers, this is only the tip of the ...
Introduction : The role of pattern in culture / Dorothy K. Washburn and Donald W. Crowe -- Introduction to the plane symmetries / Donald W. Crowe -- Periodic ornamentation of the fabric plane : ...
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy traces the hidden patterns linking Shakespeare, symmetry, artificial intelligence, and football, arguing that mathematics is not cold calculation but the quiet engine of ...