LINKTV Witness March 7, 2013
We as human beings see beauty. Theres a sense of balance, of order, to beautiful things. But where does that sense come from . And what does algebra or geometry have to do with it . Can we quantify the beauty of a butterfly . Welcome to the world of symmetry. Crystals, snowflakes, shells, geometric shapes, flowers, Decorative Arts such as the tilings of the alhambra palace in spain; they all share something besides what we might call beauty, and that something that is imicit in the sort of regularity or selfsimilarity is symmetry, a symmetry we experience with satisfaction and pleasure in our ...
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