Symmetry : cultural-historical and ontological aspects of science-arts relations : the natural and man-made world in an interdisciplinary approach
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Symmetry : cultural-historical and ontological aspects of science-arts relations : the natural and man-made world in an interdisciplinary approach
Birkhäuser, c2007
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Translated from the Hungarian by David Robert Evans
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
Introductory chapters.- Symmetry, invariance, harmony.- Historical Survey.- Symmetry in geometrical decorative art.- The golden section.- Interdisciplinary applications.- Fibonacci numbers in nature.- Perfection and beauty.- The mystery of fivefold symmetry.- From viruses to fullerene molecules.- Symmetry in Inanimate Nature.- Cosmological symmetries.- Sight and Hearing.- Symmetries and symmetry breakings in inanimate nature.- The road from nature to man.- Chirality.- Cerebral asymmetries.- Human Creativity.- Beauty and truth.- Rationality and impression.
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