Book:Ian Stewart/Fearful Symmetry

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Ian Stewart and Martin Golubitsky: Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer?

Published $\text {1992}$, Penguin Science

ISBN 0-14-013047-0


Contents

List of Figures
Preface
1 Geometer God
2 What Is Symmetry?
3 Where Did It Go?
4 Forever Stones
5 Striped Water
6 The Universe and Everything
7 Turing's Tiger
8 The Pattern of Tiny Feet
9 Icons of Chaos
10 Well, Is She?
Further Reading
Appendix 1 Equations for Icons
Appendix 2 Computer Programs for Quilts
Illustration Acknowledgements
Index