scotland yards richard jury and his sidekick melrose plant converge on a northern fishing village to hunt down a wily killer symmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics the sciences nature and art from one of the twentieth centurys greatest mathematicians hermann weyl explores the concept of symmetry beginning with the idea that it represents a harmony of proportions and gradually departs to examine its more abstract varieties and manifestationsas bilateral translatory rotational ornamental and crystallographic weyl investigates the general abstract mathematical idea underlying all these special forms using a wealth of illustrations as support symmetry is a work of seminal relevance that explores the great variety of applications and importance of symmetry