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<h2>Acta Crystallographica Section A</h2><h3>Foundations of Crystallography</h3><h3>0108-7673</h3> <h2>book reviews</h2> Volume 53 Part 2 Page 251 March 1997 <h2> Symmetry in chaos by M. Field and M. Golubitsky</h2> W. D. Whitehead 251 Book Reviews Works intended for notice in this column should be sent direct to the Book-Review Editor (R. F. Bryan, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, McCormick Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, USA). As far as practicable, books will be reviewed in a countr3' different from that of publication. Acta Co'st. (1997). A53, 251 Symmetry in chaos, By M. FIELD and M. GOLUBrI'SKY. Pp. 230. Oxford University Press, 1996. Price £15.00 (Paper). ISBN 0-19-853688-7. In this book, the authors present the kinds of pictures that may be produced when the seemingly contradictory ideas of symmetry and chaos are combined, and they provide in as elementary a way as possible the mathematical ideas that lead to those pictures. Both symmetry and chaos are topics about which much has been written lately at all levels, from the supposedly introductory to the very sophisticated, but this book takes nothing for granted. Each topic is carefully defined so that it is placed in the proper context. Symmetry is first defined, then demonstrated, with