Title:	Why beauty is truth : a history of symmetry / Ian Stewart.
Author:	Stewart, Ian, 1945-
Summary:	Explores symmetry - a concept that is simple, complex, multi-disciplinary and unifying. This book narrates the history of this area of study, from its roots in 10th-century BC Babylon to its role in 21st century physics. It describes the world beyond superstrings: the "octonionic" symmetries that may explain the very existence of the universe.
Publisher:	New York City : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2007.
Holdings:	Items are held at the following locations: Library Call No Item Type Current Location Central Library  539.725 STE  Book  First Floor  Fendalton Library  539.725 STE  Book  Nonfiction
Subject(s) :	Symmetry--History.
Description:	xiii, 290 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:	The scribes of Babylon -- The household name -- The Arabian poet -- The gambling scholar -- The cunning fox -- The frustrated doctor and the sickly genius --The luckless revolutionary -- The mediocre engineer and the transcendent professor -- The drunken vandal -- The would-be soldier and the weakly bookworm -- The clerk from the patent office -- A quantum quintet -- The five-dimensional man -- The political journalist -- A muddle of mathematicians -- Seekers after truth and beauty.
ISBN:	9780465082360 046508236X
DBCN:	11122481

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