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Wenner-Gren Volume 80
Symmetry 2000
New ISBN 9781855781498
Old ISBN 1855781492
Format: Hardback
Pages: 628
Price: GBP110.00
Members Price: GBP110.00
Date Published: January 2002
Published by: Portland Press
Edited by I Hargittai and T Laurent
University of Budapest, Hungary and University of Uppsala, Sweden
Wenner-Gren
The Wenner-Gren Foundations hosted an international symposium 'Symmetry 2000' on September 13-16, 2000. This latest volume in the Wenner-Gren series details the proceedings of this symposium.
This volume demonstrates the use of the symmetry concept in the most diverse fields and helps envisioning its further applications. The collection of contributions represents and encourages further discussion between different disciplines using the symmetry concept as a linker.
Scientists, mathematicians, engineers, sociologists, artists, humanists, and educators join forces in this volume to present their disciplines from a common viewpoint, which is the presence and use of the symmetry concept in the most diverse areas of human endeavour. This multidisciplinary approach helps us realise the unity of the world around us and helps to appreciate the different fields of human activities.
The outcome of the different approaches uncovers enhanced potentials of the symmetry concept in general education and brings the different disciplines, including the sciences, closer to the general public.
This book should be of interest to the most diverse readership, to scientists, artists, humanists and educators, indeed anyone with an interest in the topic.
- Contents: Part 1
- Shapes and fractals
- The rhombic triacontahedron HSM Coxeter
- On the use of symmetry for constructing polyhedron models MS Lounget-Higgins
- Tiling, packing and tessellation T Ogawa et al
- Dual symmetry for plane and point based structures T Wester
- Symmetrical patterns on a sphere MJ Wenninger
- Levels of orderliness: global and local symmetry B Grünbaum
- n–Dimensional semi–regular chiral polytopes K Miyazaki and S Yamaguchi
- Symmetrical explorations inspired by the study of African cultural activities
P Gerdes
- What was known about the polyhedra in ancient China and Edo Japan?
T Kobayashi
- Reflections on the kaleidoscope M Senechal
- Designs in fractal symmetry MW Aston
- Optimum packing of circles in a circle T Tarnai
- Symmetry by dilation/reduction, fractals and roughness BB Mandelbrot
- Properties and regularities
- The shape of two-dimensional space AL Mackay
- Space filling in molecular crystals JD Dunitz
- The many faces of symmetry in the work of M.C. Escher D Schattschneider
- Periodic and non–periodic patterns (tesselation) I Olovsson
- Pentagon tessellation in cystalline and quasicrystalline phases KH Kuo
- From symmetries to properties: a case study of a steel containing quasicrystalline precipitates Jan–Olof Nilsson
- XX–TEX – textiles and crystallography A Haake
- Computational symmetry Y Liu
- On the origin of the platonic bodies and some of their relatives I Bergström and S Fregert
- Pythagoreanism in atomic, nuclear and particle physics Y Ne'eman
- Symmetry and chirality
- Chirality and achirality in life R Kuroda
- The role of spontaneous breaking of mirror symmetry in chemical and prebiotic evolution VI Goldanski
- Crystal optics and the symmetry principle: an update W Kaminsky and B Kahr
- From symmetry to asymmetry – electroweak parity violation and biomolecular homochirality P Schwerdtfeger and U Müller–Herold
- Contents: Part 2
- Molecules and assemblies
- Spontaneous formation of symmetrical structures in polymer solutions
TC Laurent and Lars–Olof Sundelöf
- Self–organization of interacting round particles into symmetric or asymmetric aggregates M Markus et al
- Fibonacci phyllotaxis: mathematically speaking R Dixon
- The symmetry of spiral phyllotaxis: an artist's view CE Sabin
- A general view of symmetry considerations in NMR spectroscopy R Glaser
- Seven–fold dynamical symmetry in solid–state NMR MH Levitt
- Molecular asymmetry of odour signals: distinctive stereoisomers creating species specificity in pine sawfly pheromones G Bergström and AB Wassgren
- Social culture
- Symmetry as a quality indicator of individuals: examples from studies of animal welfare, disease and sexual selection AP Mřller
- Untangling the tangled net: symmetry and the Internet E Hargittai
- The cultural salience of symmetry D Washburn
- Symmetry in action: the laws of Nature DH Rouvray
- Optical art: 'illusions' and paradoxes of symmetry and quantum mechanics
G Caglioti
- Natural structures and forms: bridges between ancient and modern graphics – from Eurasian folk art to computer graphics Sz. Bérczi and S Kabai
- Dynamic symmetry: cinema and mathematics M Emmer
- Artistic symmetry
- Artistic expressions of mirror, reflection and perspective I Orosz
- The songs of the double helix: symmetry and lyrical conceptualism P Hartal
- Spreading symmetry through artworks MT Krasek
- Symmetry as a structural element for art O Zouni
- Symmetrical sculpture P Svensson
- Symmetry concepts in quilt and fabric design J Beyer
- Time of Silence: Luis Martín–Santos' engagement with symmetry and history in Franco's Spain R Lázaro
- Symmetry compositions in Pushkin's works: an experience of natural scientific reading VA Koptsik
- Alexander Pushkin and the laws of symmetry AV Voloshinov
- Epilogue
- The unreasonable effectiveness of the symmetry concept (homage to Eugene P. Wigner) I Hargittai
- Subject index
Reviews
"The inter disciplinary nature of the books means that you may be able to persuade your University Library to but it since there are articles of interest to historians, artists, students of foreign cultures and information technology as well as mathematicians and scientists... I found these volumes fascinating with their interesting mix of articles showing many aspects of symmetry in our culture."
Kate Crennell, Crystallography News
"This is an excellent book"
Shu-Kun Lin, Entropy
"...these two volumes provide an eclectic and engaging collection of articles...like the kaleidoscope itself, there is much here to delight and surprise"
Peter Atkins, The Times Higher
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