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Physical Book
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English
Pages
290
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.4x13.8x2.1 cm
Weight
0.29 kg.
ISBN
0465082378
ISBN13
9780465082377
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why beauty is truth,the history of symmetry

Ian Stewart (Author) · Basic Books · Paperback

why beauty is truth,the history of symmetry - Stewart, Ian

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Synopsis "why beauty is truth,the history of symmetry"

At the heart of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, and much of modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry. In Why Beauty Is Truth, world-famous mathematician Ian Stewart narrates the history of the emergence of this remarkable area of study. Stewart introduces us to such characters as the Renaissance Italian genius, rogue, scholar, and gambler Girolamo Cardano, who stole the modern method of solving cubic equations and published it in the first important book on algebra, and the young revolutionary Evariste Galois, who refashioned the whole of mathematics and founded the field of group theory only to die in a pointless duel over a woman before his work was published. Stewart also explores the strange numerology of real mathematics, in which particular numbers have unique and unpredictable properties related to symmetry. He shows how Wilhelm Killing discovered "Lie groups" with 14, 52, 78, 133, and 248 dimensions-groups whose very existence is a profound puzzle. Finally, Stewart describes the world beyond superstrings: the "octonionic" symmetries that may explain the very existence of the universe.

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