Symmetry : a very short introduction / Ian Stewart.
Ian Stewart demonstrates symmetry's deep implications, describing how symmetry's applications range across the entire field of mathematics and how symmetry governs the structure of crystals, innumerable types of pattern formation, and how systems change their state as parameters vary. Symm...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Very short introductions ;
353. |
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| Online Access: | Oxford Very Short Introductions |
| Summary: | Ian Stewart demonstrates symmetry's deep implications, describing how symmetry's applications range across the entire field of mathematics and how symmetry governs the structure of crystals, innumerable types of pattern formation, and how systems change their state as parameters vary. Symmetry is also highly visual, with applications that include animal markings, locomotion, evolutionary biology, elastic buckling, waves, the shape of the Earth, and the form of galaxies -- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 144 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 019177829X 9780191778292 |