Symmetry: Cultural-historical and Ontological Aspects of Science-Arts Relations; the Natural and Man-made World in an Interdisciplinary ApproachThe first comprehensive book on the topic in half a century explores recent symmetry – and symmetry breaking – related discoveries, and discusses the questions and answers they raise in diverse disciplines: particle and high-energy physics, structural chemistry and the biochemistry of proteins, in genetic code study, in brain research, and also in architectural structures, and business decision making, to mention only a few examples. |
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Índice
| 1 | |
| 35 | |
Symmetry in geometrical decorative art | 69 |
The golden section 97 | 96 |
Interdisciplinary applications 5 Fibonacci numbers in nature | 109 |
Perfection and beauty | 131 |
The mystery of fivefold symmetry 171 | 170 |
From viruses to fullerene molecules | 215 |
Sight and Hearing | 255 |
Symmetries and symmetry breakings in inanimate nature | 271 |
The road from nature to man 12 Chirality | 317 |
Cerebral asymmetries 351 | 349 |
Human Creativity | 373 |
Bibliography | 415 |
Sources of illustrations | 443 |
Subject index 459 | 458 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
angle antisymmetric architecture artistic atoms axis Bauhaus beauty Bérczi Budapest cells century cerebral hemispheres colour concept of symmetry conservation construction coordinates copyright owners crystal Culture and Science Darvas decorative depiction direction discovery display dodecahedron edges electromagnetic elements example Figure Fivefold Symmetry frieze frieze groups fullerene functions geometrical glide reflection golden rectangle golden section Hargittai harmony hexagons human Hungarian interaction invariance isotopic spin kaleidoscope Kepler laws left hemisphere Leonardo M.C. Escher mathematical metry mirror symmetric molecules motif nature ofthe pairs parity particles pentagons perfect phenomena physics planar plane point groups possible principle properties proportions quarks quasicrystals radiolaria rectangle reflection regular bodies regular pentagon Reproduced courtesy result rhombus right hemisphere role rotational symmetry similar Simonyi spatial sphere spin spiral structure surface symbol symmetry breakings symmetry operations theorems theory tiling tion transformation translation triangle truncated vertices wallpaper groups weak interaction Weyl World Scientific
Passagens conhecidas
Página 44 - And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
Página 162 - And philosophers tell us, Callicles, that communion and friendship and orderliness and temperance and justice bind together heaven and earth and gods and men, and that this universe is therefore called Cosmos or order, not disorder or misrule, my friend.
Página 379 - O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show...
Página 381 - O attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
Página 23 - Yet each, in itself — this was the uncanny, the anti-organic, the life-denying character of them all — each of them was absolutely symmetrical, icily regular in form. They were too regular, as substance adapted to life never was to this degree — the living principle shuddered at this perfect precision, found it deathly, the very marrow of death...
Página 44 - And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub : from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Symmetry: Cultural-historical and Ontological Aspects of Science-Arts Relations; the Natural and Man-made World in an Interdisciplinary Approach |
| Autor | György Darvas |
| Edição | ilustrada |
| Editora | Springer Science & Business Media, 2007 |
| ISBN | 3764375558, 9783764375553 |
| Número de páginas | 508 páginas |
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