Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry by Ian Stewart

Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry

Ian Stewart

290 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science challenging informative medium-paced
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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 a...

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