Symmetry: Cultural-historical and Ontological Aspects of Science-Arts Relations; the Natural and Man-made World in an Interdisciplinary ApproachSpringer Science & Business Media, 25/06/2007 - 508 páginas The 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
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3 | 88 |
The golden section | 96 |
Interdisciplinary applications | 109 |
Perfection and beauty | 131 |
7 | 170 |
From viruses to fullerene molecules | 215 |
Symmetry in Inanimate Nature | 242 |
Symmetries and symmetry breakings in inanimate nature | 296 |
The road from nature to | 317 |
Cerebral asymmetries | 350 |
Human Creativity | 373 |
Bibliography | 415 |
Sources of illustrations | 443 |
317 | 458 |
Sight and Hearing | 255 |
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2003 Cordon Art angle antisymmetric Architecture artistic atoms Auroville axis Bauhaus beauty Bérczi Budapest castle cells century cerebral hemispheres colour construction copyright owners crystal Culture and Science Darvas decorative depiction direction display dodecahedron edges electromagnetic elements example Figure Fivefold Symmetry fizika kultúrtörténete frieze frieze group fullerene functions geometrical glide reflection golden section Hargittai harmony hemispheric dominance hexagons history of physics human Hungarian invariance journal Symmetry kultúrtörténete The cultural lattice left hemisphere Leonardo M.C. Escher M.C. Escher Foundation mathematical metry Modulor molecules motif nature pairs particles pentagons perfect perspective phenomena Photo by G planar plane point groups principle properties proportions quarks quasicrystal radiolaria regular bodies regular pentagon Reproduced courtesy result rhombus right hemisphere role rotational symmetry Simonyi estate space spatial spheres spin Spiral Symmetry structure surface symbol symmetry breakings Szimmetria Tamás F theory tiling tion transformation translation triangle truncated wallpaper groups Weyl World Scientific
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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.