Symmetry 2 : unifying human understanding /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Pergamon Press,
[1989]
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| Series: | International series in modern applied mathematics and computer science ;
v. 18. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / I. Hargittai
- Symmetry revisited / M. Senechal
- Symmetry at the foundations of science / J. Rosen
- Symmetry and chaos / A.A. Chernikov [and others]
- The magic of the pentangle; dynamic symmetry from Merlin to Penrose / A.L. Loeb
- Symmetry, groupoids and higher-dimensional analogues / R. Brown
- Trisecting an orthoscheme / H.S.M. Coxeter
- Duality and the Descartes deficiency / P. Hilton and J. Pedersen
- Extending the binomial coefficients to preserve symmetry and pattern / P. Hilton and J. Pedersen
- Symmetry in the simplest case : the real line / S. Marcus
- Delicate symmetry / J. Pach
- Halley maps for a trigonometric and rational function / C.A. Pickover
- A class of symmetric polytopes / A. Hill and D.G. Larman
- Arrangements of minimal variance : multidimensional scaling in the symmetrical case / L. Telegdi.
- Tilings by regular polygons-II : a catalog of tilings / D. Chavey
- Symmetry and polyhedral stellation-Ia / G.M. Fleurent
- Symmetry and polyhedral stellation-Ib / G.M. Fleurent
- Symmetry and polyhedral stellation-II / P.W. Messer and M.J. Wenninger
- The complete set of Jitterbug transformers and the analysis of their motion / H.F. Verheyen
- A geometrical analogue of the phase transformation of crystals / G. Fejes Tóth and L. Fejes Tóth
- Computers and group-theoretical methods for studying structural phase transitions / G.M. Checin
- Structural theory of space-time and intrapoint symmetry / A.V. Malikov
- Visual and hidden symmetry in geometry / A.T. Fomenko
- Mathematics and beauty-VII : tesselation automata derived from a single defect / C.A. Pickover.
- Interpretation of so-called icosahedral and decagonal quasicrystals of alloys showing apparent icosahedral symmetry elements as twins of an 820-atom cubic crystal / L. Pauling
- Local pseudosymmetry in simple liquids / J.L. Finney
- Topological aspects of benzenoids and coronoids, including "snowflakes" and "laceflowers" / S.J. Cyvin, J. Brunvoll and B.N. Cyvin
- A set theoretic approach to the symmetry analysis of hexadecahedrane / E.R. Kouyoumdjian
- Carbon and its nets / A.T. Balaban
- C [B superscript, 60 subscript] buckminsterfullerene, other fullerenes and icospiral shell / H.W. Kroto
- Asymmetry through the eyes of a(another) chemist / M. Ács
- Chemical kinetics and thermodynamics : a history of their relationship / S. Lengyel
- Symmetries and the notion of elementarity in high energy physics / K. Gavroglu.
- Symmetry-breaking pattern formation in semiconductor physics : spatio-temporal current structures during avalanche breakdown / J. Parisi [and others]
- The perceptual value of symmetry / P. Locher and C. Nodine
- Mind's eye / A.H. Lowrey
- Non-Euclidean geometries and algorithms of living bodies / S.V. Petukhov
- Spiral phyllotaxis / R. Dixon
- A symmetry-oriented mathematical model of classical counterpoint and related neurophysiological investigations by depth EEG / G. Mazzola [and others]
- Square spirals, dimensionality and biopolymers / J.F. Liebman [and others]
- The golden section in the measurement theory / A.P. Stakhov
- Buckling patterns of shells and spherical honeycomb structures / T. Tarnai
- Symmetry in free markets / B.P. Fabricand
- Symmetries in music teaching / M. Apagyi
- Uncertainty principle and symmetry in metaphors / L. Bencze
- Modern symmetry / A. Hill.