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The Symmetries of Things

John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss - Mathematics - 2016 - 442 pages
Start with a single shape. Repeat it in some way—translation, reflection over a line, rotation around a point—and you have created symmetry. Symmetry is a fundamental ...
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The Book of Numbers

John H. Conway, Richard Guy - Mathematics - 1998 - 338 pages
"...the great feature of the book is that anyone can read it without excessive head scratching...You'll find plenty here to keep you occupied, amused, and informed. Buy, dip in ...
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On Numbers and Games

John H. Conway - Mathematics - 2000 - 268 pages
ONAG, as the book is commonly known, is one of those rare publications that sprang to life in a moment of creative energy and has remained influential for over a quarter of a ...
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Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups

John H. Conway, Neil J.A. Sloane - Mathematics - 2013 - 690 pages
The main themes. This book is mainly concerned with the problem of packing spheres in Euclidean space of dimensions 1,2,3,4,5, . . . . Given a large number of equal spheres ...
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