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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 examples from the visual arts. At the end of chapter 3 they should be able to identify and analyse all these simple symmetries and apply to them the nomenclature and symbols of the International Tables. Mathematical formalism is introduced later on in the book, and by that time the reader will have gained a solid intuitive grasp of the subject matter. This book will provide graduate students, advanced undergraduate students and practitioners in physics, chemistry, earth sciences and structural biology with a solid foundation to master the International Tables of Crystallography, and to understand the relevant literature.

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`This is a very useful book for non-specialists who wish to understand crystal symmetry in the context of determining, analysing or understanding crystal structures. The book is required reading for general readers who wish to access and use Volume A of the International Tables. It is a good guide to the Tables. The treatment is simple and easy to understand.' Gautam R. Desiraju, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India `This book will suit those seeking a detailed experience and learning of symmetry in crystallography. Both 2D (including wallpaper patterns) and 3D examples are described in detail. Phase transitions are illustrated with respect to Escher drawings. The reciprocal lattice is also defined and expanded upon finally to cover the Wigner-Seiz cell. The book requires a level of mathematics to reach into all of the topics. Different nomenclatures are carefully explained.' John R Helliwell, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester `To grasp problems like meroheral twinning and modulated structures you first need to understand the fundamentals of crystallographic symmetry. The book by Paolo Radelli is a welcome addition to textbooks in this field. It builds in a structured way from frieze groups to wallpaper groups to 3d spacegroups, introducing concepts and notations as they are needed. This book has what it takes to satisfy teacher and students alike. It is formal without being formalistic. It has rigor without the mortis. It is simply a very useful book. ' Sven Lidin, Division of Polymer & Materials Chemistry, Lund University, Sweden

This is a very useful book for non-specialists who wish to understand crystal symmetry in the context of determining, analysing or understanding crystal structures. The book is required reading for general readers who wish to access and use Volume A of the International Tables. It is a good guide to the Tables. The treatment is simple and easy to understand. Gautam R. Desiraju, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India This book will suit those seeking a detailed experience and learning of symmetry in crystallography. Both 2D (including wallpaper patterns) and 3D examples are described in detail. Phase transitions are illustrated with respect to Escher drawings. The reciprocal lattice is also defined and expanded upon finally to cover the Wigner-Seiz cell. The book requires a level of mathematics to reach into all of the topics. Different nomenclatures are carefully explained. John R Helliwell, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester To grasp problems like meroheral twinning and modulated structures you first need to understand the fundamentals of crystallographic symmetry. The book by Paolo Radelli is a welcome addition to textbooks in this field. It builds in a structured way from frieze groups to wallpaper groups to 3d spacegroups, introducing concepts and notations as they are needed. This book has what it takes to satisfy teacher and students alike. It is formal without being formalistic. It has rigor without the mortis. It is simply a very useful book. Sven Lidin, Division of Polymer & Materials Chemistry, Lund University, Sweden

To grasp problems like meroheral twinning and modulated structures you first need to understand the fundamentals of crystallographic symmetry. The book by Paolo Radelli is a welcome addition to textbooks in this field. It builds in a structured way from frieze groups to wallpaper groups to 3d spacegroups, introducing concepts and notations as they are needed. This book has what it takes to satisfy teacher and students alike. It is formal without being formalistic. It has rigor without the mortis. It is simply a very useful book. * Sven Lidin, Division of Polymer & Materials Chemistry, Lund University, Sweden * This book will suit those seeking a detailed experience and learning of symmetry in crystallography. Both 2D (including wallpaper patterns) and 3D examples are described in detail. Phase transitions are illustrated with respect to Escher drawings. The reciprocal lattice is also defined and expanded upon finally to cover the Wigner-Seiz cell. The book requires a level of mathematics to reach into all of the topics. Different nomenclatures are carefully explained. * John R Helliwell, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester * This is a very useful book for non-specialists who wish to understand crystal symmetry in the context of determining, analysing or understanding crystal structures. The book is required reading for general readers who wish to access and use Volume A of the International Tables. It is a good guide to the Tables. The treatment is simple and easy to understand. * Gautam R. Desiraju, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India *

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Following a Laurea degree at the Università degli Studia di Milano and a PhD at Illinois Institute of Technology, Professor Radaelli has held posts at the Argonne National Laboratory, CNRS Grenoble, the Institute Laue-Langevin and the ISIS Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. His main interest is the study of transition metal oxides displaying novel physical phenomena, such as high-temperature superconductivity, 'colossal' magneto-resistance or multiferroics behaviour, with the potential of device applications. He is now Dr Lee's Professor of Experimental Philosophy at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University

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