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In 1924 G. Polya, a Hungarian mathematician, put forward a paper to Zeitschrift für Kristallo graphie, entitled “Über die Analogie der Kristall-Symmetrie in der Ebene”. It was an unusual paper; it lacks mathematical proof, because he felt the proof in his mind was not elegant enough to be published. Nevertheless the paper became famous because of its attractive illustration. Polya collected a number of daily life patterns which embody the 17 two-dimensional crystallographic (that is double-periodic) groups. He probably searched for wall patterns and ladies’ cloth patterns found in the every day life in Hungary.
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Husimi, K. (1996). Symmetry in Mon and Mon-yo . In: Ogawa, T., Miura, K., Masunari, T., Nagy, D. (eds) Katachi ∪ Symmetry. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68407-7_6
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