Symmetry Studies

Budden, F.J.
1972 The Fascination of Groups. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.

Coxeter, H.S.M.
1969 Introduction to Geometry. John Wiley & Sons, New York.

Drain, Dena Dale and Ira Block
1991 Symmetry Analysis Applied to Textile Design, Ars Textrina, vol. 16, pp. 157 - 175.

Elliott, Verde
1990 The Seventeen Pattern Types: A Study of Repeat Pattern in Two Dimensions. Emerald Press, Hendersonville, N.C.

Emmer, Michele, ed.
1993 The Visual Mind: Art and Mathematics. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London.

Field, Michael and Martin Golubitsky
1992 Symmetry in Chaos: A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art, and Nature. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, and Tokyo.

Grünbaum, Branko and G.C. Shepherd
1986 Tilings and Patterns: An Introduction. W.H. Freeman and Company, New York.

Hahn, W.
1995 Symmetry as a Developmental Principle in Nature and Art. World Scientific.

Hargittai, I. ed.
1986 Symmetry: Unifying Human Understanding. Pergamon, New York.

1989 Symmetry 2: Unifying Human Understanding. Pergamon, New York.

Hargittai, Istvan and Magdolna Hargittai
1994 Symmetry: A Unifying Concept. Shelter Publications, Bolinas, CA.

Heilbronner, Edgar and Jack D. Dunitz
1993 Reflections on Symmetry in Chemistry...and Elsewhere. VCH Publishers, NY.

Henry, N.F.M. and K. Lonsdale
1952 International Tables for X-Ray Crystallography, vol. 1, Kynoch Press, Birmingham, England.

Kappraff, Jay
1991 Connections: The Geometric Bridge between Art and Science. McGraw-Hill, New York. [pp.202-207 on Islamic art, mathematics, and spirituality].

Loeb, Arthur L.
1976 Color and Symmetry. John Wiley, New York. Repr. Krieger.

1992 Concepts and Images: Visual Mathematics. Birkhaueser.

Martin, G.E.
1982 Transformational Geometry: An Introduction to Symmetry. Springer-Verlag, NY.

Polya, G.
1924 Über die Analogie der Kristallsymmetrie in der Ebene, Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie, 60, pp. 278-282.

Rosen, Joe
1975 Symmetry Discovered. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

1995 Symmetry in Science: An Introduction to the General Theory. Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, Heidelberg, London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Budapest.

Schattschneider, Doris
1978 The Plane Symmetry Groups: Their Recognition and Notation, The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 85, June/July, pp. 439 - 450.

1990 Visions of Symmetry: Notebooks, Periodic Drawings, and Related Works of M.C. Escher, W.H. Freeman, New York.

Stevens, Peter S.
1981 Handbook of Regular Patterns: An Introduction to Symmetry in Two Dimensions, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London.

1974 Patterns in Nature. Little, Brown & Company, Boston.

Walker, Trevor and Richard Padwick
1981 Pattern: Its Structure and Geometry. Ceolfrith Press, Sunderland [1977].

Washburn, Dorothy K. and Donald W. Crowe
1988 Symmetries of Culture: Theory and Practice of Plane Pattern Analysis, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London.

Compiled 1/94 by Carol Bier
Revised 4/95; 11/95; 3/96 by Carol Bier