Symmetry: Cultural-historical and Ontological Aspects of Science-Arts Relations; the Natural and Man-made World in an Interdisciplinary ApproachSpringer Science & Business Media, 25/06/2007 - 508 من الصفحات 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. |
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Historical Survey | 35 |
3 | 88 |
The golden section | 96 |
Interdisciplinary applications | 109 |
Perfection and beauty | 131 |
7 | 170 |
From viruses to fullerene molecules | 215 |
Symmetry in Inanimate Nature | 242 |
Symmetries and symmetry breakings in inanimate nature | 296 |
The road from nature to | 317 |
Cerebral asymmetries | 350 |
Human Creativity | 373 |
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Sources of illustrations | 443 |
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Sight and Hearing | 255 |
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