• Media type: Book
  • Title: The symmetries of things
  • Contains: 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..
  • Contributor: Conway, John Horton [Author]; Burgiel, Heidi [Author]; Goodman-Strauss, Chaim [Author]
  • imprint: Wellesley, Mass.: AK Peters, c 2008
  • Extent: XVIII, 426 S.; Ill., graph. Darst; 25 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 1568812205; 9781568812205
  • RVK notation: SK 380 : Klassische Geometrie
  • Keywords: Symmetrie > Mathematik
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: 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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  • Due date: 2024/07/12
  • Status: On loan, place hold
  • Shelf-mark: SK 380 C767
  • Item ID: 33835541