Symmetry: Cultural-Historical and Ontological Aspects of Science-Arts Relations; The Natural and Man-Made World in an Interdisci (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783764375546)

The first comprehensive book on the topic in half a century explores recent symmetry - and symmetry breaking - related discoveries, and discusses the questions and answers they raise in diverse disciplines: particle and high-energy physics, structural chemistry and the biochemistry of proteins, in genetic code study, in brain research, and also in architectural structures, and business decision making, to mention only a few examples.