Symmetry Discovered

Author : Joe Rosen
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048614500X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symmetry Discovered written by Joe Rosen and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly enlarged classic covers basic concepts and terminology, lucid discussions of geometric symmetry, other symmetries and approximate symmetry, symmetry in nature, in science, more. Solutions to problems. Expanded bibliography. 1975 edition.

Author : Ian Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465082378
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Beauty Is Truth written by Ian Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physics.

Author : David W. Farmer
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821804502
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Groups and Symmetry: A Guide to Discovering Mathematics written by David W. Farmer and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This nicely produced volume focuses on the informal analysis of geometrical patterns. By means of a series of carefully selected tasks, the book leads readers to discover some real mathematics. There are no formulas to memorize and no procedures to follow. It is a guide to start you in the right direction and bring you back if you stray too far. Discovery is left to you.

Author : Ian Stewart
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191652741
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symmetry: A Very Short Introduction written by Ian Stewart and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1800s mathematicians introduced a formal theory of symmetry: group theory. Now a branch of abstract algebra, this subject first arose in the theory of equations. Symmetry is an immensely important concept in mathematics and throughout the sciences, and its applications range across the entire subject. Symmetry governs the structure of crystals, innumerable types of pattern formation, how systems change their state as parameters vary; and fundamental physics is governed by symmetries in the laws of nature. It is highly visual, with applications that include animal markings, locomotion, evolutionary biology, elastic buckling, waves, the shape of the Earth, and the form of galaxies. In this Very Short Introduction, Ian Stewart demonstrates its deep implications, and shows how it plays a major role in the current search to unify relativity and quantum theory. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : J. E. Baggott
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfect Symmetry written by J. E. Baggott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buckyballs are hollow-sphere molecules of 60 carbon atoms arranged such that they resemble the famous geodesic domes of Buckminster Fuller. Science writer Baggott recounts how the new form of the common element was developed; the applications of its radically different properties, particularly in high-temperature superconductors; and the implications of its discovery for chemistry and the conception of large carbon structures. Most of his account is accessible to readers with little or no scientific background. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Michael Leyton
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262621311
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symmetry, Causality, Mind written by Michael Leyton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this investigation of the psychological relationship between shape and time, Leyton argues compellingly that shape is used by the mind to recover the past and as such it forms a basis for memory. Michael Leyton's arguments about the nature of perception and cognition are fascinating, exciting, and sure to be controversial. In this investigation of the psychological relationship between shape and time, Leyton argues compellingly that shape is used by the mind to recover the past and as such it forms a basis for memory. He elaborates a system of rules by which the conversion to memory takes place and presents a number of detailed case studies--in perception, linguistics, art, and even political subjugation--that support these rules. Leyton observes that the mind assigns to any shape a causal history explaining how the shape was formed. We cannot help but perceive a deformed can as a dented can. Moreover, by reducing the study of shape to the study of symmetry, he shows that symmetry is crucial to our everyday cognitive processing. Symmetry is the means by which shape is converted into memory. Perception is usually regarded as the recovery of the spatial layout of the environment. Leyton, however, shows that perception is fundamentally the extraction of time from shape. In doing so, he is able to reduce the several areas of computational vision purely to symmetry principles. Examining grammar in linguistics, he argues that a sentence is psychologically represented as a piece of causal history, an archeological relic disinterred by the listener so that the sentence reveals the past. Again through a detailed analysis of art he shows that what the viewer takes to be the experience of a painting is in fact the extraction of time from the shapes of the painting. Finally he highlights crucial aspects of the mind's attempt to recover time in examples of political subjugation.

Author : E. H. Lockwood
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521216852
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geometric Symmetry written by E. H. Lockwood and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1978-12-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symmetry is of interest in two ways, artistic and mathematical. It underlies much scientific thought, playing an important role in chemistry and atomic physics, and a dominant one in crystallography. It is important in architectural and engineering design and particularly in the decorative arts. This book provides a comprehensive account of symmetry in a form acceptable to readers without much detailed mathematical knowledge or experience who nevertheless want to understand the basic principles of the subject. It will be useful in school and other libraries and as preliminary reading for students of crystallography. The treatment is geometrical, which should appeal to art students and to readers whose mathematical interests are that way inclined.

Author : Mario Livio
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743274628
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved written by Mario Livio and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Bach's compositions, Rubik's Cube, the way we choose our mates, and the physics of subatomic particles have in common? All are governed by the laws of symmetry, which elegantly unify scientific and artistic principles. Yet the mathematical language of symmetry-known as group theory-did not emerge from the study of symmetry at all, but from an equation that couldn't be solved. For thousands of years mathematicians solved progressively more difficult algebraic equations, until they encountered the quintic equation, which resisted solution for three centuries. Working independently, two great prodigies ultimately proved that the quintic cannot be solved by a simple formula. These geniuses, a Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel and a romantic Frenchman named Évariste Galois, both died tragically young. Their incredible labor, however, produced the origins of group theory. The first extensive, popular account of the mathematics of symmetry and order, The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved is told not through abstract formulas but in a beautifully written and dramatic account of the lives and work of some of the greatest and most intriguing mathematicians in history.

Author : Rocco Gaudenzi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030998959
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Roots of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking written by Rocco Gaudenzi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the thinking processes and knowledge resources involved in a complex discovery? How can the physics of solids, the physics of nuclei, and elementary particle physics cross-fertilise in spite of the widely differing domains and energy scales they deal with? This book addresses the questions by reconstructing and examining from the historical epistemological perspective the fascinating heuristic path to the concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking. This analysis especially brings to light the role that analogical reasoning and mathematical reformulations played in the discovery process, as well as the influence of the Japanese milieu and approach to physical problems.

Author : György Darvas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3764375558
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symmetry written by György Darvas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive book on the topic in half a century explores recent symmetry – and symmetry breaking – related discoveries, and discusses the questions and answers they raise in diverse disciplines: particle and high-energy physics, structural chemistry and the biochemistry of proteins, in genetic code study, in brain research, and also in architectural structures, and business decision making, to mention only a few examples.