Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns by Frank A. Farris
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Creating Symmetry : The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns
This new book by Frank A. Farris, professor of mathematics at Santa Clara University, is a comprehensive introduction to the mathematics of symmetry. Symmetry has long provided a connection between mathematics and the visual arts. This book distinguishes itself from other treatments of the subject (e.g., [9], [5], and [1]) by its detailed descriptions of exactly how one creates new artistic des...
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عنوان ژورنال: Notices of the American Mathematical Society
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0002-9920,1088-9477
DOI: 10.1090/noti1295