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Why Beauty Is Truth

- A History of Symmetry
Af: Ian Stewart Engelsk Paperback

Why Beauty Is Truth

- A History of Symmetry
Af: Ian Stewart Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 304
ISBN-13: 9780465082377
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0465082378
Kategori: Naturvidenskab
Udg. Dato: 29 apr 2008
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 203mm
Højde: 135mm
Forlag: Basic Books
Oplagsdato: 29 apr 2008
Forfatter(e): Ian Stewart
Forfatter(e) Ian Stewart


Kategori Naturvidenskab


ISBN-13 9780465082377


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 304


Udgave


Længde 20mm


Bredde 203mm


Højde 135mm


Udg. Dato 29 apr 2008


Oplagsdato 29 apr 2008


Forlag Basic Books

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