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Fearful symmetry: Is God a Geometer?
Symmetry is one of the most powerful and wide-ranging of mathematical ideas with recent work on symmetry breaking, when symmetrical patterns are slightly altered or corrupted, throwing up an extraordinary range of applications and natural examples, from the stripes on a tiger\'s back to the ter...
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London :
Penguin Books,
1992.
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| 版: | 1 |
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书本目录:
- Geometer God; what is symmetry?; where did it go?; forever stones; striped water; the universe and everything; Turing's tiger; the pattern of tiny feet; icons of chaos; well, is she?. Appendices: equations for icons; computer programs for quilts.