Wallpaper Groups: references and links
References and Links
References
These are general references. There are also references on the history page that are primarily of historical interest.
- Martin Buerger. An Introduction to the Fundamental Features of Crystals. Wiley, 1956, revised 1963.
- Philip H. Butler. Point group symmetry applications: methods and tables. Plenum Press, New York, 1981.
- H. S. M. Coxeter. Introduction to Geometry. Wiley, New York, 1961. An excellent text on modern geometry. Coxeter makes transformations and groups central concepts. See especially chapter 2 for wallpaper patterns and related topics.
- D. Hilbert and S. Cohn-Vossen. Anschauliche Geometrie. Springer, Berlin, 1932. English translation: Geometry and the Imagination. Chelsea, 1952. See especially chapter 2 of this fascinating book on geometry.
- Arthur S. Nowick. Crystal properties via group theory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge-New York, 1995.
- Allen Nussbaum. Applied group theory for chemists, physicists and engineers. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,1971.
- Doris Schattschneider
The plane symmetry groups: their recognition and notation, Amer. Math. Monthly 85 (1978), 439-450. This is a nice article. This journal should be available at every college library in the United States.
- Hermann Weyl.Symmetry. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1952. Weyl wrote four relatively nonmathematical lectures on the general subject of symmetry with many examples from art and science.
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David E. Joyce
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Clark University
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