Symmetry : Cultural-historical and Ontological Aspects of Science-Arts Relations; the Natural and Man-made World in an Interdisciplinary Approach

Symmetry Cultural-historical and Ontological Aspects of Science-Arts Relations; the Natural and Man-made World in an Interdisciplinary Approach

All of us have a certain conception of what symmetry means, at least as far as its main forms are concerned (like mirror-reflection or rotation, but only rarely translation). What are the common features of these transformations? How can one generalise them to explain similar phenomena that appear i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Darvas, György. author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel 2007.
Edition:1st ed. 2007.
Subjects:
Mathematics.
Architecture.
Arts.
Mathematics, general.
Architecture, general.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009462055206719
Table of Contents:
  • Introductory chapters
  • Symmetry, invariance, harmony
  • Historical Survey
  • Symmetry in geometrical decorative art
  • The golden section
  • Interdisciplinary applications
  • Fibonacci numbers in nature
  • Perfection and beauty
  • The mystery of fivefold symmetry
  • From viruses to fullerene molecules
  • Symmetry in Inanimate Nature
  • Cosmological symmetries
  • Sight and Hearing
  • Symmetries and symmetry breakings in inanimate nature
  • The road from nature to man
  • Chirality
  • Cerebral asymmetries
  • Human Creativity
  • Beauty and truth
  • Rationality and impression.

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