readings
Week	Text	Source
1	Aristotle  Book XIII	Metaphysics
2-4	Weyl  Bilateral symmetry & translatory, rotational, and related symmetries Stewart & Golubitsky  Geometer god	Symmetry Fearful Symmetry
5	Newton  Laws of motion	Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
6	Feynman  Symmetry in physical laws	Lectures on Physics
7	Wigner  Symmetry and conservation laws	Symmetries and Reflections
8	Gardner  Can time go backward?	Scientific American (Jan 1967)
9	Hargittai & Hargittai  Chirality & Polyhedra Plato  From Timaeus	Symmetry through the Eyes of a Chemist Timaeus
10	Kepler  Concerning the five regular solid figures Gardner  Molecules	The Harmonies of the World The New Ambidextrous Universe
11	Whyte  Chirality Hegstrom & Kondepudi  The handededness of the universe	Leonardo (1975) Scientific American (Jan 1990)
12	Gardner  Plants and animals Gardner  Asymmetry in animals	The New Ambidextrous Universe The New Ambidextrous Universe
13	Bornstein & Gross  Left and right in science and art	Leonardo (1978)
14	Darvas  Perspective as a symmetry transformation	Nexus Network Journal (2003)
15	Williams  Symmetry in architecture	Visual Mathematics (1999)