Symmetry
Subtitle: A Very Short Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780199651986
Description: 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.