Why beauty is truth : a history of symmetry / Ian Stewart.

New York City : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2007.

xiii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

The scribes of Babylon -- The household name -- The Arabian poet -- The gambling scholar -- The cunning fox -- The frustrated doctor and the sickly genius --The luckless revolutionary -- The mediocre engineer and the transcendent professor -- The drunken vandal -- The would-be soldier and the weakly bookworm -- The clerk from the patent office -- A quantum quintet -- The five-dimensional man -- The political journalist -- A muddle of mathematicians -- Seekers after truth and beauty.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-282) and index.