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Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics

Categorie	Algemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer	#318815-VF24
Titel	Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics
Auteur	Zee, A.
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Princeton/Oxford : Princeton University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2007
ISBN10	0691173265
ISBN13	9780691173269
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The concept of symmetry has widespread manifestations and many diverse applications - from architecture to mathematics to science. Yet, as twentieth-century physics has revealed, symmetry has a special, central role in nature, one that is occasionally and enigmatically violated. Fearful Symmetry brings the incredible discoveries of the juxtaposition of symmetry and asymmetry in contemporary physics within everyone's grasp. A. Zee, a distinguished physicist and skillful expositor, tells the exciting story of how contemporary theoretical physicists are following Einstein in their search for the beauty and simplicity of Nature. Animated by a sense of reverence and whimsy, Fearful Symmetry describes the majestic sweep and accomplishments of twentieth-century physics - one of the greatest chapt... (Lees verder)ers in the intellectual history of humankind.
Pagina's	356
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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