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The search for regularity is a dominant theme in man’s attempt to understand the world around him. Any such attempt is based on an assumption, tacitly made or explicit, that phenomena in nature and in the man-made world are governed by laws that result in order and structure.
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Grenander, U. (1981). Patterns: From Chaos to Order. In: Regular Structures. Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 33. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5905-3_2
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