Book Review

A globe-trotting couple, structural chemists from Budapest, have assembled this fine display for general readers from ages 12 to 120. It shows that world of symmetries the authors first entered through the austere portals of electron diffraction.

...it is a book of pictures in black and white. Art and nature draw similar attention here, mostly at the scale that meets the eye. ... As a field guide to easily-grasped and beautiful exemplars of this powerful idea, the book is a storehouse hard to beat.

~ Philip amd Phylis Morrison, Scientific American exerpt