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| Author | : Joseph Rosen |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1996-10-25 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780387948362 |
Symmetry plays an essential role in science - not only in crystallography and quantum theory, where its role has long been explicitly recognized, but also in condensed-matter physics, thermodynamics, chemistry, biology, and others. This text discusses the concept of symmetry and its application to many areas of science. While it includes a detailed introduction to the theory of groups, which forms the mathematical apparatus for describing symmetries, it also includes a much more general discussion of the nature of symmetry and its role in science. Many problems serve to sharpen the reader's understanding, and an extensive bibliography concludes the book.
| Author | : Joseph Rosen |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2008-02-20 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3540759735 |
When we use science to describe and understand the world around us, we are in essence grasping nature through symmetry. Emphasizing the concepts, this book leads the reader coherently and comprehensively into the fertile field of symmetry and its applications. Among the most important applications considered are the fundamental forces of nature and the Universe. Written by a renowned expert, this book will convince all interested readers of the importance of symmetry in science.
| Author | : Alekseĭ Vasilʹevich Shubnikov |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : |
The perception of symmetry in art and in nature has been appreciated since antiquity, with development of the underlying laws tracing back at least to Pythagorean times. By the end of the eighteenth century it was realized that the immense variety of natural crystal shapes could be accounted for on the basis of a rather small number of symmetry operations, of which some were equally applicable to biological systems. The mathematical theory of symmetry continued to mature throughout the last century, culminating in the independent discoveries in Russia, Germany, and England that a total of only 230 independent ways exist in which the operations of rotation, reflection, and translation can be combined to transform three-dimensional geometrical objects into themselves. Derivation of the 230 space groups depends ultimately on restricting the meaning of symmetry to that of a property of purely geometrical figures. A. V. Shubnikov and his collaborators, over the past three decades, expanded this concept of symmetry to include the sign of transformation operations.
| Author | : A. Zee |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2015-10-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1400874505 |
An engaging exploration of beauty in physics, with a foreword by Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose 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 chapters in the intellectual history of humankind.
| Author | : Ian Stewart |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2008-04-29 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 0465082378 |
| Author | : Bruno Gruber |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 623 |
| Release | : 2005-12-27 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 140202634X |
This book is a collection of reviews and essays about the recent developments in the area of Symmetries and applications of Group Theory. Contributions have been written mostly at the graduate level but some are accessible to advanced undergraduates. The book is of interest to a wide audience and covers a broad range of topics with a strong degree of thematical unity. The book is part of a Series of books on Symmetries in Science and may be compared to the published Proceedings of the Colloquia on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics. Here, however, prevails a distinguished character for presenting extended reviews on present applications to Science, not restricted to Theoretical Physics.
| Author | : Bruno Gruber |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 613 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1461529565 |
The Symposium "Symmetries in Science VII: Spectrum Generating Algebras and Dynamic Symmetries in Physics" was held at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in Niigata, Japan Campus, during the period August 28-31, 1992. The Symposium was held in honor of Professor Francesco lachello on the occasion of his 50th birthday. We wish to thank the colleagues and friends of Franco for their participation in the Symposium as well as for contributing articles to this volume honoring him. It was their commitment and involvement which made this Symposium a success. We also wish to thank Dr. Jared H. Dorn, the director of SIUC-N, for his support in the planning and the execution of the Symposium. Moreover we wish to thank Mayor Nobuo Kumakura of Nakajo town and Mr. Kaichi Suzuki of the school entity "The Pacific" for their friendly support. Bruno Gruber, SIUC-N Takaharu Otsuka, University of Tokyo v LAUDATIO ON THE OCCASION OF THE 50TH BIRTHDAY OF PROFESSOR FRANCESCO IACHELLO I first met Franco lachello in 1974. Driving a smart Alfa-Romeo, he came to meet me at the station at Groningen where I was to spend a summer conducting research.
| Author | : Bruno Gruber |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1461559219 |
Proceedings of a symposium held in Bregenz, Austria, August 6-10, 1996
| Author | : Bruno Gruber |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1461519152 |
Thf3 symposium "Symmetries in Science VIII" was held in August of 1994 at the Cloister Mehrerau in Bregenz, Austria. The symposium was supported by Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, the Land Vorarlberg, and the Landeshaupstaot Bregenz. I wish to thank Dr. John C. Guyon, President of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; Dr. Hubert Regner, Amt der Vorarlberger Landesregierung; and Dipl. Vw. Siegfried Gasser, Buergermeister der Landeshauptstadt Bregenz and Lantagsabgeordneter, for their generous support of the symposium. Finally I wish to thank Frater Albin of the Cloister Mehrerau for his support and cooperation in this endeavor, which made for a successful meeting in a most pleasant environment. Bruno Gruber v CONTENTS On Om x Gin Highest Weight Vectors Helmer Aslaksen, Eng-Chye Tan, and Chen-bo Zhu ... . Invariant Theory of Matrices Helmer Aslaksen, Eng-Chye Tan, and Chen-bo Zhu ... . 1 3 Symmetries of Elementary Particles Revisited A.O. Barut ... ... ... 21 Perturbative SU(1,1) Haluk Seker ... . ..., . ... 25 A Dual Structure for the Quantal Rotation Group, SU(2) L.C. Biedenharn and M.A. Lohe ..., . ... ... 37 Some Points in the Quantization of Relativistic Grassmann Dependent Interaction Systems A. Del Sol Mesa and R, P. Martinez y Romero ..., . ... 49 for Uq(sl(4)) and q-Conformal q-Difference Intertwining Operators I nvariant Equations V.K. Dobrev ... ... ... 55 A Quantum Mechanical Evolution Equation for Mixed States from Symmetry and Kinematics H.-D. Doebner and J.D. Hennig ... ... 85 vii Quantum Mechanical Motions over the Group Manifolds and Related Potentials I.H. Duru -. ... ... ...
| Author | : Bruno Gruber |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 602 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1461307872 |
Nicely printed and bound proceedings of a major symposium contain 29 reviews of highly diverse developments in the world of symmetry, plus 14 rather briefer research papers. The variety of the topics treated and the authority of the contributors suggest that most physical theorists will find here so
