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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Once you start looking, you can find symmetry all around you. It's in words and even letters. It's in both nature and man-made things. In fact, art, decoration, and buildings are full of it. This clear and concise book explains different types of symmetry and shows you how to spot them make your own symmetrical masterpieces. Notes and a glossary are included, as well as activities that show kids how to make their own symmetrical masterpieces.
5) Symmetry
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Simple text and colorful photos make learning important concepts easy. Familiar two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes and their properties from home and school are used to introduce children to symmetry and asymmetry, lines of symmetry, and congruence.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps' or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human intelligence. Gödel, Escher, Bach is a...
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