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Fearful symmetry : is god a geometer? / Ian Stewart and Martin Golubitsky

An investigation into symmetry in the natural world, examining patterns found in biological forms and meteorological phenomena. The text analyses the role of broken symmetries in modern physics and the fundamental laws of the universe.

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