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Abstraction Scientist

A Comprehensive History of Symmetry

Dénes Nagy is president of the Society and the energy behind organizing the Congresses. He also is likely our greatest scholar of the history of symmetry.

His work does not directly contribute metaphors for the Project — though he is mentioned in another note. Nevertheless, the combined work is so significant, I cannot omit a survey of his papers from this bibliography. I recommend diving into these papers for an interdisciplinary overview of symmetry.

His papers are available in the Society’s Journals, many of which are online and can be accessed through the Journals area. Some have not yet been scanned.

(This note is a temporary placeholder as I gather information)

 The Relationship to Kutachi

There is no direct relationship to user interface metaphors. There is general applicability that symmetry is a principle or concept that bridges what the Society calls Art and Science and sometimes Culture and Science. Nowhere is this better expressed than in these histories,

Links

(Nagy papers)