Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer?

by Ian Stewart, Martin Golubitsky (Author)

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"From the shapes of clouds to dewdrops on a spider's web, this accessible book employs the mathematical concepts of symmetry to portray fascinating facets of the physical and biological world. More than 120 figures illustrate the interaction of symmetry with dynamics and the mathematical unity of nature's patterns"--

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Indeholder "List of Figures", "Preface", "1. Geometer God", " 'God Ever Geometrizes'", " The Shape of a Splash", " Curie's Principle", " Curie Was Wrong", " Loss of Stability", " Curie Was Right", " Trucks and Trees", " Spiderwebs", " Honeycomp Lakes", " Corn Circles", "2. What is Symmetry?", " Changed, Yet the Same", " The Greedy Starfish", " What is a Transformation?", " Rigid Motions", " The Group Concept", " Algebra in Starfishland", " The Gambling Scholar", " Femme Fatale", " Geometry Is Symmetry", " A Gaggle of Groups", " Symmetry-breaking Through the Eyes of a Group-theorist", "3. Where Did It Go?", " Where Does the Symmetry Go?", " The Extended Curie Principle", " Time Symmetries", " Wobbles", " The Hosepipe", " Coupled show more Oscillators", "4. Forever Stones", " Four Greek Theories", " Snowballs", " Oryctognosy", " A New Angle", " Weaver's Son", " Crystal Symmetry", " The Mathematics Deepens", " The Role of Symmetry-breaking", "5. Striped Water", " Shear Delight", " Ponies and Pandora", " Symmetry Rules, OK?", " Patterns of Broken Symmetry", " Predictive Power", " Apple Turnover", " New Paradigm", "6. The Universe and Everything", " What Shape Is a Star?", " The Great Flattener", " Island Universes", " Pulsating Stars", " Whirlpools of Light", " Why Spirals?", " Kinky Current", " The Great Wall", "7. Turing's Tiger", " Consider a Spherical Frog", " Designer Genes", " Epigenesis", " Morphogens and Morphogenesis", " The Breakdown of Symmetry", " Hydra Dynamics", " Gastrulation", " The Missing Theory", " Left- and Right-handed Snails", " Generation Gap", " Weak Interaction in the Primeval Oceans", " The Grin on the Tail of the Tiger", " Not Too Literally ...", "8. The Pattern of Tiny Feet", " No Bounds", " Horse Cents", " Bipedal Gaits", " Quadrupedal Gaits", " Central Pattern Generators", " Symmetries of Gaits", " Map of the Cat", " Two Oscillators", " Four Oscillators", " The Three-Legged Dog", " All Change", " Centipedes Revisited", "9. Icons of Chaos", " Fruit Flies on the Farm", " An Odd Equation", " Icons and Occilators", " Chaotic Quilts", "10. Well, Is She?", " Platonic Relationship", " Square Orbits", " Production-line Universe", " Dicing Deity Meets Geometer God", " Theory of Everything", " Nature or Nurture?", " The Human Angle", " Technology Transfer", " Twist and Shrink", " Not Just Groups", " Come On, Is She or Not?", "Further Reading", "Appendix 1 - Equations for Icons", "Appendix 2 - Computer Programs for Quilts", "Illustration Acknowledgements", "Index".

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Ian Stewart is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Warwick. The author of numerous books on math, he has written for New Scientist, Discover, and Scientific American, among other publications in the United Kingdom and the United States. He lives in Coventry, England.
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500Natural sciences & mathematicsScienceNatural sciences and mathematics
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