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Symmetry: A Very Short Introduction
In the 1800s mathematicians introduced a formal theory of symmetry: group theory. Now a branch of abstract algebra, this subject first arose in the theory of equations. Symmetry is an immensely important concept in mathematics and throughout the sciences, and its applications range across the entire...
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2013
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| Series: | Very short introductions, 353.
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Table of Contents:
- What is symmetry?
- Origins of symmetry
- Types of symmetry
- Structure of groups
- Groups and games
- Nature's patterns
- Nature's laws
- Atoms of symmetry.