Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer?

Indeholder "List of Figures", "Preface", "1. Geometer God", " 'God Ever Geometrizes'", " The Shape of a Splash", " Curie's Principle", " Curie Was Wrong", " Loss of Stability", " Curie Was Right", " Trucks and Trees", " Spiderwebs", " Honeycomp Lakes", " Corn Circles", "2. What is Symmetry?", "

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Changed, Yet the Same", " The Greedy Starfish", " What is a Transformation?", " Rigid Motions", " The Group Concept", " Algebra in Starfishland", " The Gambling Scholar", " Femme Fatale", " Geometry Is Symmetry", " A Gaggle of Groups", " Symmetry-breaking Through the Eyes of a Group-theorist", "3. Where Did It Go?", " Where Does the Symmetry Go?", " The Extended Curie Principle", " Time Symmetries", " Wobbles", " The Hosepipe", " Coupled Oscillators", "4. Forever Stones", " Four Greek Theories", " Snowballs", " Oryctognosy", " A New Angle", " Weaver's Son", " Crystal Symmetry", " The Mathematics Deepens", " The Role of Symmetry-breaking", "5. Striped Water", " Shear Delight", " Ponies and Pandora", " Symmetry Rules, OK?", " Patterns of Broken Symmetry", " Predictive Power", " Apple Turnover", " New Paradigm", "6. The Universe and Everything", " What Shape Is a Star?", " The Great Flattener", " Island Universes", " Pulsating Stars", " Whirlpools of Light", " Why Spirals?", " Kinky Current", " The Great Wall", "7. Turing's Tiger", " Consider a Spherical Frog", " Designer Genes", " Epigenesis", " Morphogens and Morphogenesis", " The Breakdown of Symmetry", " Hydra Dynamics", " Gastrulation", " The Missing Theory", " Left- and Right-handed Snails", " Generation Gap", " Weak Interaction in the Primeval Oceans", " The Grin on the Tail of the Tiger", " Not Too Literally ...", "8. The Pattern of Tiny Feet", " No Bounds", " Horse Cents", " Bipedal Gaits", " Quadrupedal Gaits", " Central Pattern Generators", " Symmetries of Gaits", " Map of the Cat", " Two Oscillators", " Four Oscillators", " The Three-Legged Dog", " All Change", " Centipedes Revisited", "9. Icons of Chaos", " Fruit Flies on the Farm", " An Odd Equation", " Icons and Occilators", " Chaotic Quilts", "10. Well, Is She?", " Platonic Relationship", " Square Orbits", " Production-line Universe", " Dicing Deity Meets Geometer God", " Theory of Everything", " Nature or Nurture?", " The Human Angle", " Technology Transfer", " Twist and Shrink", " Not Just Groups", " Come On, Is She or Not?", "Further Reading", "Appendix 1 - Equations for Icons", "Appendix 2 - Computer Programs for Quilts", "Illustration Acknowledgements", "Index".

Symmetri og symmetribrud og dyrs gangarter.

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