Symmetry in Crystallography

by Paolo Radaelli

This book presents the reader with a fresh and unconventional approach to teaching crystallographic symmetry. Whereas traditional crystallography textbooks make a heavy use of algebra and rapidly become very technical, this book adopts in the first few chapters a 'pictorial' approach based on the symmetry diagrams of the International Tables for Crystallography. Readers are led step-by-step through simple 'frieze' and 'wallpaper' patterns, with many...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199550654
• ISBN13: 9780199550654
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.7"