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Title:
Symmetry : a very short introduction / Ian Stewart.
Author:
Stewart, Ian, 1945- author.
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Call Number:
QA174.7.S96 S74 2013
Abstract:
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.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780199651986
Series:
Very short introductions ; 353

Very short introductions ; 353.
Physical Description:
xii, 144 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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.
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