Definition:Wallpaper Group
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Definition
A wallpaper group is the symmetry group of a $2$-dimensional configuration in the plane.
Also see
- Results about wallpaper groups can be found here.
Historical Note
It was long known that there are 17 Wallpaper Groups but this was not proven till $1891$.
Sources
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $219$
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $219$
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): wallpaper group
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): wallpaper group
- 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): wallpaper group