Eccentric Symmetries

Eccentric Symmetries
Author: Nancy Springer
Publisher: Untreed Reads
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2016-12-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1611878772

Eccentric Symmetries, 20 fantasy short stories spanning the forty-year career of author Nancy Springer, showcases tales ranging from the quirky to the transcendent. Including mythic tales of long ago and far away such as award-winner “The Boy Who Plaited Manes,” this collection also contains wry, sometimes humorous contemporary fantasy stories such as "Rumple What?" and "Snow Spawn," plus mystic magical realism in which cabbage roses grow down from the ceiling (“Mariposa”) and hard-edged future fantasy stories such as “We Don’t Know Why,” a tale of failing “angels.” Like our lives, the stories in Eccentric Symmetries are mostly off-kilter, even laughable, but sometimes achieve a luminous moment of perfect balance, an epiphany. In this carefully selected collection, every fantasy reader should find something to love.

Symmetries and Dynamics of Star Clusters

Symmetries and Dynamics of Star Clusters
Author: Jaroslav Haas
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2014-01-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319036505

In this PhD thesis, which was nominated for publication in this series by the Astronomical Institute at Charles University, Prague, the author investigates the orbital evolution of an initially thin stellar disc around a supermassive black hole, considering various perturbative sources of gravity. His findings, obtained by both direct numerical N-body modelling and using standard perturbation methods, offer a viable theoretical explanation for the observed configuration of young stars in the Galactic Centre. This marks a significant contribution to a topic of great interest in contemporary astrophysics. The author also shows in his thesis that a secular instability (m = 1 mode) may occur in the embedding spherical cluster of old stars. This increases the richness of possible evolution scenarios of the embedding cluster and may lead to effective feeding of supermassive black holes through tidal disruption of stars on extremely eccentric orbits.

Symmetries in Quantum Physics

Symmetries in Quantum Physics
Author: U. Fano
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 349
Release: 1996-06-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080542174

This text focuses on the physics of symmetries, developing symmetries and transformations through concrete physical examples and contexts rather than presenting the information axiomatically, mathematically, and abstractly. Readers are introduced gradually to advanced mathematical procedures, including the Wigner and Racah algebras and their applications to various symmetry groups. The book also includes some of the latest research on the use of non-invariance and non-compact groups in the consideration of relativistic and many-particle problems of atoms and nuclei.This book is an updated replacement for the text Irreducible Tensorial Sets (Academic Press, 1959). Parts A and B of the present book grew out of occasional lectures in the intervening decades at the University of Chicago, where it became neccessary to update or elaborate upon certain points. Part C has been built more recently to deal with innovations and new information in the field of mathematical physics. The book as a whole develops the subject of symmetry from a physical point of view, allowing students and researchers to gain new insight on their subject. This book can be used both as a text and as a reference by students and scientists in the field.Adapts and extends the earlier Irreducible Tensor Sets (Academic Press, 1959) to classroom useExtends to multi-particle systems and relativityIncludes problems in each chapter for homework assignmentsEmbraces the latest research on non-invariance groups

Symmetry Measures on Complex Networks

Symmetry Measures on Complex Networks
Author: Angel Garrido
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2018-07-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3038424986

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Symmetry Measures on Complex Networks" that was published in Symmetry

Embedded Symmetries, Natural and Cultural

Embedded Symmetries, Natural and Cultural
Author: Dorothy Koster Washburn
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780826331526

Scholars representing several disciplines examine how patterns and symmetry are expressed and resonate in a variety of man's creations and cultures.

Symmetry in Plants

Symmetry in Plants
Author: Roger V. Jean
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 900
Release: 1998
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789810226213

The book deals with biological, mathematical, descriptive, causal and systemic phyllotaxis. It aims at reflecting the widest possible range of ideas and research closely related to phyllotaxis and contains 30 well illustrated chapters.The book has three parts of equal importance. The first two parts concern data collecting, pattern recognition and pattern generation to which students of phyllotaxis are well accustomed. The third part is devoted to the problem of origins of phyllotactic patterns, giving the field of phyllotaxis the universality it requires to be fully understood.Phyllotaxis-like patterns are found in places where genes are not necessarily present. Part III concerns general comparative morphology, homologies with phyllotactic patterns, and recent trends on evolution that can help to understand phyllotaxis.The distinguished researchers who accepted to participate in the production of this book, strongly contributed to the field of phyllotaxis in the past and have devoted a lot of their time to the fascinating subject coming up with most valuable findings, or are newcomers with original ideas that may be very relevant for the future of the field. The book summarizes and updates their contributions, and promotes new avenues in the treatment of phyllotaxis.This book on mathematical and biological phyllotaxis is the first collective book ever. A landmark in the history of phyllotaxis.

Translation

Translation
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 764
Release: 1934
Genre: Forest management
ISBN:

Consists of translated reprints from various journals.

Food Powders

Food Powders
Author: Enrique Ortega-Rivas
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2006-04-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0387276130

This useful reference is the first book to address key aspects of food powder technology. It assembles organized and updated information on the physical properties, production, and functionality of food powder, previously unavailable in book form.