This new book from the author of \'The Music of the Primes\' combines a personal insight into the mind of a working mathematician with the story of one of the biggest adventures in mathematics: the search for symmetry.
Our eyes and minds are drawn to symmetrical objects, from the sphere to the swastika, the pyrami.
This is the story of how humankind has come to its understanding of the bizarre world of symmetry -- a subject of fundamental significance to the way we interpret the world around us.
This new book from the author of \'The Music of the Primes\' combines a personal insight into the mind of a working mathematician with the story of one of the biggest adventures in mathematics: the search for symmetry