Fivefold symmetry is common in flowers, fruits, molecules, logos, and buildings, but it is a forbidden symmetry in the world of crystals. A few years ago, the so-called quasicrystals were discovered displaying fivefold symmetry, and it caused a minirevolution in crystallography. There has been increased awareness of fivefold symmetry in all domains of human interest ever since. The present book brings together authors and ideas on a common theme from mathematics, the sciences, design, and anthropology to history, literature, and the arts. Its 29 chapters are an offering by scientists and humanists from 13 countries to a broad readership of professionals and laypersons about fivefold symmetry and the areas that are being bridged by this unique concept.
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minimal entropy model, pentagonal seal, golden rhombus, golden gnomon, many pentagrams, visible opposed pairs, star decagon, hyperbolic honeycombs, luminous delta, fivefold rotation axes, type cmm, fivefold symmetry, icosahedral system, pentagonal star, fivefold axes, compass opening, minimality principle, rhombic triacontahedron, hyperbolic patterns, lesser symmetry, regular heptagon, regular pentagon, stereographic representation, vertex locations, star pentagon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Rig Veda, Islamic Pentagonal Seal, Unifying Human Understanding, Pergamon Press, Geometria Deutsch, Escher Heirs, Grand Gallery, Middle Ages, Piazzi Smyth, Scientific American, Zome Primer, Chandogya Upanishad, Cordon Art-Baarn-Holland, Divina Proportione, John Michell, Traditional Crests, Acta Cryst, Circle Limit, Djed Column, Islamic Art, Lima de Freitas, Old Testament, Some Pentagonal, Apparition of Christ New!
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I suppose I could be considered reasonably sophisticated in matters of symmetry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minimal entropy model, pentagonal seal, golden rhombus, golden gnomon, many pentagrams, visible opposed pairs, star decagon, hyperbolic honeycombs, luminous delta, fivefold rotation axes, type cmm, fivefold symmetry, icosahedral system, pentagonal star, fivefold axes, compass opening, minimality principle, rhombic triacontahedron, hyperbolic patterns, lesser symmetry, regular heptagon, regular pentagon, stereographic representation, vertex locations, star pentagon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Rig Veda, Islamic Pentagonal Seal, Unifying Human Understanding, Pergamon Press, Geometria Deutsch, Escher Heirs, Grand Gallery, Middle Ages, Piazzi Smyth, Scientific American, Zome Primer, Chandogya Upanishad, Cordon Art-Baarn-Holland, Divina Proportione, John Michell, Traditional Crests, Acta Cryst, Circle Limit, Djed Column, Islamic Art, Lima de Freitas, Old Testament, Some Pentagonal, Apparition of Christ New!
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- Regular Polytopes (Dover Books on Mathematics) by H. S. M. Coxeter on 6 pages
- Symmetry: Unifying Human Understanding (International series in modern applied mathematics and computer science) (v. 1) by Istvan Hargittai on 5 pages
- The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoit B. Mandelbrot on page 150, page 162, and page 165
- Tilings and Patterns by Branko Grunbaum on page 127, page 281, and page 487
- Elements of Hindu Iconography (2 vols. in 4 books) by T.A. Gopinatha Rao on page 443, and page 444
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- Beyond Measure by Jay Kappraff on 4 pages
- In Our Own Image: Personal Symmetry in Discovery by István Hargittai in Front Matter, page 50, and page 179
- Symmetry through the Eyes of a Chemist by István Hargittai in Front Matter, page 19, and Back Matter
- New Geometries for New Materials by Eric A. Lord in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Phyllotaxis: A Systemic Study in Plant Morphogenesis (Cambridge Studies in Mathemati) by Roger V. Jean in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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