Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what about symmetry? In our final feature on mathematicians let loose in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Mathematician Balázs Szendrői investigates the beauty of symmetry in the Museum's Islamic art works. As he explains, no matter what the tile pattern may look like, its underlying symmetry configuration belongs to a small set of possibilities.
If you are interested in the Random Walks series have a look at the previous films.