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Symmetry: A Very Short Introduction

Symmetry: A Very Short Introduction

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作者: Ian Stewart

出版社: Oxford University Press

出版时间: 2013-04

ISBN: 9780199651986

装帧: 其他

开本: 其他

页数: 160页

丛书: Very Short Introductions

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>自然科学

Explores one of the most important concepts in mathematics and science
Examines the role of symmetry in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology
Considers the scientific applications of symmetry
Part of the bestselling Very Short Introductions series
In the 1800s mathematicians introduced a formal theory of symmetry: group theory. Now a branch of abstract algebra, this subject first arose in the theory of equations. Symmetry is an immensely important concept in mathematics and throughout the sciences, and its applications range across the entire subject. Symmetry governs the structure of crystals, innumerable types of pattern formation, how systems change their state as parameters vary; and fundamental physics is governed by symmetries in the laws of nature.
It is highly visual, with applications that include animal markings, locomotion, evolutionary biology, elastic buckling, waves, the shape of the Earth, and the form of galaxies. In this Very Short Introduction, Ian Stewart demonstrates its deep implications, and shows how it plays a major role in the current search to unify relativity and quantum theory.
Readership: Students of mathematics, physics, and chemistry, as well as general readers interested in symmetry. Ian Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University
Ian Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University. He is a well-established communicator of mathematics, and the author of over 80 books, including several on the subject of symmetry. His summary of the problems of mathematics, From Here to Infinity, and collections of his columns from Scientific American (How to Cut a Cake, Cows in the Maze), have been very successful, and his recent book Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, has been a bestseller. Introduction
1: What is symmetry?
2: Origins of symmetry
3: Types of symmetry
4: Structure of groups
5: Groups and games
6: Nature's patterns
7: Nature's laws
8: Atoms of symmetry
Further reading
References
内容简介:
Explores one of the most important concepts in mathematics and science
Examines the role of symmetry in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology
Considers the scientific applications of symmetry
Part of the bestselling Very Short Introductions series
In the 1800s mathematicians introduced a formal theory of symmetry: group theory. Now a branch of abstract algebra, this subject first arose in the theory of equations. Symmetry is an immensely important concept in mathematics and throughout the sciences, and its applications range across the entire subject. Symmetry governs the structure of crystals, innumerable types of pattern formation, how systems change their state as parameters vary; and fundamental physics is governed by symmetries in the laws of nature.
It is highly visual, with applications that include animal markings, locomotion, evolutionary biology, elastic buckling, waves, the shape of the Earth, and the form of galaxies. In this Very Short Introduction, Ian Stewart demonstrates its deep implications, and shows how it plays a major role in the current search to unify relativity and quantum theory.
Readership: Students of mathematics, physics, and chemistry, as well as general readers interested in symmetry.
作者简介:
Ian Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University
Ian Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University. He is a well-established communicator of mathematics, and the author of over 80 books, including several on the subject of symmetry. His summary of the problems of mathematics, From Here to Infinity, and collections of his columns from Scientific American (How to Cut a Cake, Cows in the Maze), have been very successful, and his recent book Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, has been a bestseller.
目录:
Introduction
1: What is symmetry?
2: Origins of symmetry
3: Types of symmetry
4: Structure of groups
5: Groups and games
6: Nature's patterns
7: Nature's laws
8: Atoms of symmetry
Further reading
References

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