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.
- ISBN10 0387948368
- ISBN13 9780387948362
- Publish Date 25 October 1996 (first published 24 March 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Edition 1st ed. 1995. 2nd printing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 213
- Language English