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• Title:Symmetry : a very short introduction / Ian Stewart.
  
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• Author/Creator:Stewart, Ian, 1945- author.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: Q172.5.S95 S74 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Symmetry (Mathematics)
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:xii, 144 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
  
• Series:Very short introductions ; 353.
  
• Summary:Ian Stewart demonstrates symmetry's deep implications, describing how symmetry's applications range across the entire field of mathematics and how symmetry governs the structure of crystals, innumerable types of pattern formation, and how systems change their state as parameters vary. Symmetry is also highly visual, with applications that include animal markings, locomotion, evolutionary biology, elastic buckling, waves, the shape of the Earth, and the form of galaxies -- Source other than Library of Congress.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-137) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199651986 (paperback)
  0199651981 (paperback)
  
• 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.