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Click to enlargeThe New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings: Third Revised Edition

Martin Gardner
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ISBN: 0486442446
Page Count: 416
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
This newly updated edition of a well-known work explores a pair of modern science's most fundamental discoveries: the asymmetric DNA helix and the overthrow of parity (left-right symmetry) in particle physics. Absorbing and thought-provoking, The New Ambidextrous Universe was written by Martin Gardner, one of Dover's most popular authors,.
Reprint of the W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1990 edition.
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