Flowers of ice - Beauty, symmetry, and complexity: A review of the snowflake: Winter's secret beauty

Notices of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 402-

  Adam, John A ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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