A Conceptual History of Space and Symmetry From Plato to the Superworld /
This book presents the author's personal historical perspective and conceptual analysis on symmetry and geometry. The author enlightens with modern views the historical process which led to the contemporary vision of space and symmetry that are used in theoretical physics and in particular in s...
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| Médium: | Elektronický zdroj E-kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Springer International Publishing,
2018.
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| Vydání: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| ISBN: | 9783319980232 |
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Obsah:
- The Episteme
- Symmetry and Mathematics
- How Group Theory came into Being
- From Crystals to Plato
- The Long Tale of Lie Groups
- Hermann Weyl and Representation Theory
- A Short History of Differential Geometry
- Geometry Becomes Complex
- Geometry Becomes Special
- Black Holes: The Physics of Geometry
- Modern Manifolds from Ancient Polyhedra
- Epilogue.