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Fearful Symmetry : the Search for Beauty in Modern Physics.
An engaging exploration of beauty in physics, with a foreword by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose The concept of symmetry has widespread manifestations and many diverse applications--from architecture to mathematics to science. Yet, as twentieth-century physics has revealed, symmetry has...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Princeton science library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Symmetery and design
- In search of beauty
- Symmetry and simplicity
- The far side of the mirror
- Part II: Einstein's legacy
- Marriage of time and space
- A happy thought
- Symmetry dictates design
- Part III: Into the limelight
- Where the action is not
- The lady and the tyger
- Learning to read the great book
- Symmetry triumphs
- Part IV: To know his thoughts
- The eightfold path in the forest of the night
- The revenge of art
- The ultimate design problem
- Unity of forces
- The rist of hubris
- The mind of the creator.