Symmetry Cultural-historical and ontological aspects of science-arts relations The natural and man-made world in an interdisciplinary approach /

• Main Author: Darvas, György (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2007.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Arts.; Architecture.; Mathematics, general.; Architecture, general.

All of us have a certain conception of what symmetry means, at least as far as its main forms are concerned (like mirror-reflection or rotation, but only rarely translation). What are the common features of these transformations? How can one generalise them to explain similar phenomena that appear i...