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Title: Is Neuroscience Limited by Tools or Ideas?
Author: Partha Mitra
Narrator: Jef Holbrook
Format: Unabridged
Length: 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-17-17
Publisher: Scientific American
Genres: Science & Technology, Magazine & Radio

Summary:
Intricate, symmetric patterns, in tiles and stucco, cover the walls and ceilings of Alhambra, the red fort, the dreamlike castle of the medieval Moorish kings of Andalusia. Seemingly endless in variety, the two dimensionally periodic patterns are nevertheless governed by the mathematical principles of group theory and can be classified into a finite number of types: precisely seventeen, as shown by Russian crystallographer Evgraf Federov. The artists of medieval Andalusia are unlikely to have been aware of the mathematics of space groups, and Federov was unaware of the art of Alhambra. The two worlds met in the 1943 PhD thesis of Swiss astronomer Edith Alice Muller, who counted eleven of the seventeen planar groups in the adornments of the palace (more have been counted since). All seventeen space groups can also be found in the periodic patterns of Japanese wallpaper.
"Is Neuroscience Limited by Tools or Ideas?" is from scientificamerican.com, published on April 11, 2017.

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