Symmetry : a very short introduction / Ian Stewart.

By:

Stewart, Ian

Material type: Text

text
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unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780199651986 (pbk.)
0199651981 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

Symmetry (Mathematics)

DDC classification:

516.1 STE 23 009251

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Table of contents

Contents:

What is symmetry? -- Origins of symmetry -- Types of symmetry -- Structure of groups -- Groups and games -- Nature's patterns -- Nature's laws -- Atoms of symmetry.

Summary: Ian Stewart demonstrates symmetry's deep implications, describing how symmetry's applications range across the entire field of mathematics and how symmetry governs the structure of crystals, innumerable types of pattern formation, and how systems change their state as parameters vary. Symmetry is also highly visual, with applications that include animal markings, locomotion, evolutionary biology, elastic buckling, waves, the shape of the Earth, and the form of galaxies --

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-137) and index.

What is symmetry? --
Origins of symmetry --
Types of symmetry --
Structure of groups --
Groups and games --
Nature's patterns --
Nature's laws --
Atoms of symmetry.

Ian Stewart demonstrates symmetry's deep implications, describing how symmetry's applications range across the entire field of mathematics and how symmetry governs the structure of crystals, innumerable types of pattern formation, and how systems change their state as parameters vary. Symmetry is also highly visual, with applications that include animal markings, locomotion, evolutionary biology, elastic buckling, waves, the shape of the Earth, and the form of galaxies --

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