TY - BOOK
AU - Conway, John Horton
AU - Burgiel, Heidi
AU - Goodman-Strauss, Chaim
TI - The symmetries of things
PB - AK Peters
SN - 1568812205
SN - 9781568812205
KW - Symmetry (Mathematics)
KW - Geometry
KW - Shapes
KW - Symmetrie
KW - Mathematik
PY - c 2008
N2 - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2 - 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..
CY - Wellesley, Mass.
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
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