Stewart, Ian, 1945- author.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013];©2013.
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Part of the series Very short introductions 353;Very short introductions 353.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-137) and index.
- 1. What is symmetry? — 2. Origins of symmetry — 3. Types of symmetry — 4. Structure of groups — 6. Nature’s patterns — 7. Nature’s laws — 8. 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 — Source other than Library of Congress.
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