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  title info:
    title: Symmetry
    sub title: Cultural-historical and ontological aspects of science-arts relations The natural and man-made world in an interdisciplinary approach
  title info:
    title: Translated from the Hungarian by David Robert Evans
  name:
    name part: Darvas, György.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 508 p. 420 illus., 66 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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 in different arts and sciences? What other forms of symmetry can we include in the scope of our study by the application of these generalised rules? How can a common phenomenon lend possible solutions from one discipline to another? Did you know that symmetry is a universal concept that has appeared in all cultures since prehistoric times, accompanying us through the history of mankind? What important role have asymmetries like the one-handedness of the neutrino played in the formation of matter, from the assumed Big Bang through to the asymmetries of the human brain? This book tries to explain these and a number of related questions. This is the first comprehensive book on the topic since the publication of H. Weyl’s popular book on symmetry more than fifty years ago. It is relevant to almost all fields of science where symmetry appears as a phenomenon or is applied as a method, and where the concept is present in contemporary sciences, humanities and arts. Symmetry used to be a fundamental phenomenon in crystallography, where its basic concept was elaborated, in morphological biology, and of course in mathematics, which provided its exact description. In the last half century symmetry (and symmetry breaking) has become a leading principle in physics, in all sciences that deal with the structure of matter, as well as in the biochemistry of proteins, the study of the genetic code, brain research (where functional asymmetries have been revealed), psychology, and in developing architectural structures and in business decision-making, to name but a few examples. This book seeks to find common regularities among these apparently disparate phenomena. It covers most of the achie…
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by György Darvas.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Arts
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics, general
  subject:
    topic: Architecture, general
  subject:
    topic: Arts
  classification: QA1-939
  classification: 510
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783764375553
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-7555-3
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204181809.0
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