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Symmetry
- Title
- Symmetry / by Hermann Weyl.
- Author
- Weyl, Hermann, 1885-1955.
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1952.
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- Description
- 168 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Dr. Weyl presents a masterful and fascinating survey of the applications of the principle of symmetry in sculpture, painting, architecture, ornament, and design; its manifestations in organic and inorganic nature; and its philosophical and mathematical significance. -- Scientific American.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.
- Bibliography (note)
- "Preface and bibliographical remarks": 5th and 6th prelim. pages.
- Contents
- Bilateral symmetry -- Translatory, rotational, and related symmetries -- Ornamental symmetry -- Crystals: the general mathematical idea of symmetry -- Determination of all finite groups of proper rotation in 3-space -- Inclusion of improper rotations.
- ISBN
- 0691023743
- 9780691023748
- 0691080453
- 9780691080451
- LCCN
- 52005830
- B5212132
- OCLC
- ocm00374835
- 374835
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries