| Description |
xiii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282) and index. |
| Contents |
The scribes of Babylon -- The household name -- The Arabian poet -- The gambling scholar -- The cunning fox -- The frustrated doctor and the sickly genius --The luckless revolutionary -- The mediocre engineer and the transcendent professor -- The drunken vandal -- The would-be soldier and the weakly bookworm -- The clerk from the patent office -- A quantum quintet -- The five-dimensional man -- The political journalist -- A muddle of mathematicians -- Seekers after truth and beauty. |
| Subject |
Symmetry -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780465082360 |
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046508236X |
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