Classic work, newly enlarged, provides excellent introduction to the basic concepts and terminology of symmetry, with lucid discussions of geometric symmetry, other symmetries and approximate symmetry, symmetry in nature, uses of symmetry in science, much more. Solutions to problems. Expanded bibliog... read more
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Classic work, newly enlarged, provides excellent introduction to the basic concepts and terminology of symmetry, with lucid discussions of geometric symmetry, other symmetries and approximate symmetry, symmetry in nature, uses of symmetry in science, much more. Solutions to problems. Expanded bibliography. 1975 edition.
Reprint of the Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1975.
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