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In Our Own Image: Personal Symmetry in Discovery

In Our Own Image: Personal Symmetry in Discovery

Hargittai, Istvan
Hargittai, Magdolna

Hardcover

ChemistryGeneral SciencePhysics

ISBN10: 0306460912
ISBN13: 9780306460913
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Feb 29 2000
Pages: 235
Weight: 1.60
Height: 0.76 Width: 7.20 Depth: 10.22
Language: English
The title of our volume refers to what is well described by the following two quota- tions: Godcreated man in his own imagel and Man creates God in his own image.2 Our approach to symmetry is subjective, and the term personal symmetry reflects this approach in our discussion of selected scientific events. We have chosen six icons to symbolize six areas: Kepler for modeling, Fuller for new molecules, Pauling for helical structures, Kitaigorodskii for packing, Bernal for quasicrystals, and Curie for dissymmetry. For the past three decades we have been involved in learning, thinking, speaking, and writing about symmetry. This involvement has augmented our principal activities in molecular structure research. Our interest in symmetry had started with a simple fascination and has evolved into a highly charged personal topic for us. At the start of this volume, we had had several authored and edited symmetry related books behind 3 us. We owe a debt of gratitude to the numerous people whose interviews are quoted 4 in this volume. We very much appreciate the kind and gracious cooperation of Edgar J. Applewhite (Washington, DC), Lawrence S. Bartell (University of Michigan), R.

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