When Sameness Became a Law — From Patterns to the Universe

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1. 1300 BCE · AlexandriaPlacing Five Perfect Forms inside One System — Euclid’s Regular Solids
2. 2990 · BaghdadJoining the Artisan’s Hand to Proof — Abu al-Wafa’s Constructions
3. 31350 · GranadaExtending a Wall through Repetition and Transformation — Alhambra Patterns
4. 41770 · BerlinPermuting Roots before Finding Their Values — Lagrange
5. 51830 · ParisSolvability Depends on Which Permutations Are Possible — Galois
6. 61872 · ErlangenClassifying Geometries by What They Preserve — Klein’s Erlangen Program
7. 71873 · OsloLetting Symmetry Flow Instead of Counting It — Sophus Lie
8. 81891 · Saint PetersburgCounting Every Spatial Symmetry Allowed by Periodic Crystals — Fedorov
9. 91918 · GöttingenFinding the Conditions under Which Continuous Symmetry Gives Conservation — Noether
10. 101928 · LeipzigReading Quantum Transformations through Group Representations — Weyl
11. 111954 · UptonIntroducing a New Field to Preserve Local Symmetry — Yang and Mills
12. 121961 · PasadenaOrganizing the Particle Zoo with a Symmetry Table — The Eightfold Way
13. 131964 · EdinburghGiving Gauge Fields Mass while Preserving the Theory’s Structure — Higgs and Independent Teams
14. 141982 · GaithersburgSeeing Fivefold Symmetry Where Periodic Crystals Forbade It — Shechtman
15. 152012 · MeyrinFinding a Trace of Symmetry Breaking in Collision Data — The Higgs Boson