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Ancient Mesopotamian pottery shows that people understood symmetry and division 4,000 years before the Sumerians invented numbers
Until now, it was believed that mathematical thinking only began once people gained the knowledge of numbers and writing.
This lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. Instead of breaking up patterns into blocks--a sort of potato-stamp ...
Have you ever admired how the slats of a hardwood floor fit together so cleanly, or how the hexagons underneath your bathroom rug perfectly meet up? These are examples of geometric tilings, ...
Nature creates stunning patterns that look designed. Hexagons in honeycombs and basalt columns, sand ripples, and snowflakes ...
A leopard is chasing a zebra, bound to follow the laws of nature and natural selection, down a sand dune and across a plain of dried mud, bound to the laws of geology and sediments. The stripes of the ...
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