György Darvas: Symmetry | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9783764375546 | Symmetry | György Darvas | Taschenbuch | xi | Englisch | 2007

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Beschreibung

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.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Genre:	Geisteswissenschaften , Kunst , Musik , Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Titelzusatz:	Cultural-historical and Ontological Aspects of Science-Arts Relations; the Natural and Man-made World in an Interdisciplinary Approach
Inhalt:	xi 508 S. 354 s/w Illustr. 66 farbige Illustr. 508 p. 420 illus. 66 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783764375546
ISBN-10:	376437554X
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	11600268
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Darvas, György
Übersetzung:	Evans, David Robert
Hersteller:	Birkhäuser Springer Basel AG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, D-14197 Berlin, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	244 x 170 x 29 mm
Von/Mit:	György Darvas
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.02.2007
Gewicht:	0,894 kg