Why beauty is truth: a history of symmetry

The scribes of Babylon

The household name

The Arabian poet

The gambling scholar

The cunning fox

The frustrated doctor and the sickly genius

The luckless revolutionary

The mediocre engineer and the transcendent professor

The drunken vandal

The would-be soldier and the weakly bookworm

The clerk from the patent office

A quantum quintet

The five-dimensional man

The political journalist

A muddle of mathematicians

Seekers after truth and beauty.