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978-3-7643-7555-3

Symmetry : Cultural-historical and ontological aspects of science-arts relations The natural and man-made world in an interdisciplinary approach

Publication year: 2007

ISBN: 978-3-7643-7555-3

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Symmetry used to be a fundamental phenomenon in crystallography, where its basic concept was elaborated, in morphological biology, and of course in mathematics, which provided its exact description. In the last half century symmetry (and symmetry breaking) has become a leading principle in physics, in all sciences that deal with the structure of matter, as well as in the biochemistry of proteins, the study of the genetic code, brain research (where functional asymmetries have been revealed), psychology, and in developing architectural structures and in business decision-making, to name but a few examples. This book seeks to find common regularities among these apparently disparate phenomena. It covers most of the achievements reached in the sciences in recent decades that have been given new impetus by the mutual influences of art and science related to symmetry (or the lack of it).


Subject: Mathematics and Statistics / Mathematics, general / Architecture, general / Arts / Natur / Symmetry / architecture / body /geometry