by Ian Stewart · Basic Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780465082377
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«Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry» is Ian Stewart's popular science essay, published by Basic Books in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Ian Stewart traces the history of symmetry, a central concept in relativity, quantum mechanics and string theory. Girolamo Cardano and Évariste Galois appear, along with the properties of certain numbers, Lie groups and octonionic symmetries that could explain the existence of the universe.
The essay Why Beauty Is Truth was originally published in 2007 with the subtitle The Story of Symmetry.
For popular science readers interested in the history of mathematics and physics.
Ian Nicholas Stewart is a British mathematician and a popular-science, textbooks, and science-fiction books writer. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, England.
