Why beauty is truth :
Stewart, Ian, 1945-
Why beauty is truth : a history of symmetry / Ian Stewart. - xiii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282) and index.
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.
9780465082360 046508236X
2006038274
GBA714091 bnb
013677966 Uk
Symmetry--History.
Q172.5.S95 / S744 2007
539.7/25
Why beauty is truth : a history of symmetry / Ian Stewart. - xiii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282) and index.
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.
9780465082360 046508236X
2006038274
GBA714091 bnb
013677966 Uk
Symmetry--History.
Q172.5.S95 / S744 2007
539.7/25