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In this chapter, we shall introduce one of the few really worthwhile, reasonably non-technical, applications of group theory. It is a geometrical application: a method of counting things for which there is no obvious method.
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© 1993 Mark Cartwright
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Cartwright, M. (1993). Counting Coloured Shapes. In: Groups. Dimensions of Mathematics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12123-6_7
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