- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 144 pages) : illustrations.
- 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 --
- Series Statement
- Very short introductions ; 353
- Uniform Title
- Symmetry (Online)
- Very short introductions ; 353.
- Alternative Title
- Symmetry (Online)
- Subject
- Symmetry (Mathematics)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-137) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2013427449
- OCLC
- ssj0001039145
- Author
Stewart, Ian, 1945-
- Title
Symmetry [electronic resource] : a very short introduction / Ian Stewart.
- Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Edition
First Edition.
- Series
Very short introductions ; 353
Very short introductions ; 353.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-137) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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