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3.0 out of 5 stars
The Price does not Justify the Return,
By JamesDaedalus "-word" (Ft Lauderdale, Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: M.C. Escher: Art and Science (Proceedings of the International Congress on M.C. Escher Rome, Italy, 26-28 March, 1985) (Hardcover)
While I'm sure at the time of this conference, the works in this book were a bit more groundbreaking, there is little in the book that is outside the realm of modern mathematical models of symmetry and symmetry breaking.
It is fantastic, mind you. And it's nice to read some of these authors in their own 'speech' - for it is obvious that many of the papers collected were delivered to a crowd as part of a presentation. Therefore much of this collection is a messy copy of many unedited (spelling/sentence errors) and hand written notes. It's great. But, I don't know that there is any work from this conference that was not published later, and, since that is the case, much of this is really available for free on-line at this point. There are some nice hand written black& white pictures by Penrose, but... for $70-100 dollars? I wouldn't recommend this for an Escher fan, certainly, and only the most die-hard of math fans. |
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M.C. Escher: Art and Science (Proceedings of the International Congress on M.C. Escher Rome, Italy, 26-28 March, 1985) by Michele Emmer (Hardcover - Jan. 1987)
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