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Symmetry

Title: Symmetry / by Hermann Weyl.
Author: Weyl, Hermann, 1885-1955.
Publication: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1952.

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168 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Dr. Weyl presents a masterful and fascinating survey of the applications of the principle of symmetry in sculpture, painting, architecture, ornament, and design; its manifestations in organic and inorganic nature; and its philosophical and mathematical significance. -- Scientific American.

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Note

Includes index.
Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.

Bibliography (note)

"Preface and bibliographical remarks": 5th and 6th prelim. pages.

Contents

Bilateral symmetry -- Translatory, rotational, and related symmetries -- Ornamental symmetry -- Crystals: the general mathematical idea of symmetry -- Determination of all finite groups of proper rotation in 3-space -- Inclusion of improper rotations.

ISBN

0691023743
9780691023748
0691080453
9780691080451

LCCN

52005830
B5212132

OCLC

ocm00374835
374835

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Columbia University Libraries