Screen LibrarySymmetry : a very short introduction /
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. Symm...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Very short introductions ; 353 |
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| 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 -- |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 144 pages : illustrations, forms ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780199651986 (paperback) : 0199651981 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | QA174 |
| CLC: | O15 |
| Call Number: | O15/S849 |
| 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. |