Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer? by Martin Golubitsky, Ian Stewart

Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer?

Martin Golubitsky, Ian Stewart

320 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics science informative medium-paced
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This fascinating study explores a fundamental paradox behind the patterns of the natural world, in which symmetrical causes lead to asymmetrical effects. Lesser and greater patterns—the structure of subatomic particles, a tiger's stripes, the shap...

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