Sources and further reading Crystal symmetry • Wikipedia: Platonic solid, crystallographic point group, crystallographic restriction theorem • Rees, "Notes on Geometry" (Springer Universitext) • Senechal, "Crystalline symmetries: An informal mathematical introduction" Quasicrystals • "Dan Shechtman: 'Linus Pauling said I was talking nonsense'" (The Observer, 6 January 2013) • Wikipedia: Icosahedrite • Bindi-Steinhardt-Yao-Lu, "Icosahedrite, Al63Cu24Fe13, the first natural quasicrystal" • Bindi et al., "Evidence for the extraterrestrial origin of a natural quasicrystal" • "What is… a Quasicrystal?" by Marjorie Senechal (Notices of the AMS) String theory and mathematics • Wikipedia: History of string theory, Edward Witten • Thomas, "Mirror symmetry and actions of braid groups on derived categories"
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