Symmetry Cultural-historical and ontological aspects of science-arts relations The natural and man-made world in an interdisciplinary approach /
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...
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Basel :
Birkhäuser Basel,
2007.
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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.
