Indeholder "List of Figures", "Preface", "1. Geometer God", " 'God Ever Geometrizes'", " The Shape of a Splash", " Curie's Principle", " Curie Was Wrong", " Loss of Stability", " Curie Was Right", " Trucks and Trees", " Spiderwebs", " Honeycomp Lakes", " Corn Circles", "2. What is Symmetry?", " Changed, Yet the Same", " The Greedy Starfish", " What is a Transformation?", " Rigid Motions", " The Group Concept", " Algebra in Starfishland", " The Gambling Scholar", " Femme Fatale", " Geometry Is Symmetry", " A Gaggle of Groups", " Symmetry-breaking Through the Eyes of a Group-theorist", "3. Where Did It Go?", " Where Does the Symmetry Go?", " The Extended Curie Principle", " Time Symmetries", " Wobbles", " The Hosepipe", " Coupled Oscillators", "4. Forever Stones", " Four Greek Theories", " Snowballs", " Oryctognosy", " A New Angle", " Weaver's Son", " Crystal Symmetry", " The Mathematics Deepens", " The Role of Symmetry-breaking", "5. Striped Water", " Shear Delight", " Ponies and Pandora", " Symmetry Rules, OK?", " Patterns of Broken Symmetry", " Predictive Power", " Apple Turnover", " New Paradigm", "6. The Universe and Everything", " What Shape Is a Star?", " The Great Flattener", " Island Universes", " Pulsating Stars", " Whirlpools of Light", " Why Spirals?", " Kinky Current", " The Great Wall", "7. Turing's Tiger", " Consider a Spherical Frog", " Designer Genes", " Epigenesis", " Morphogens and Morphogenesis", " The Breakdown of Symmetry", " Hydra Dynamics", " Gastrulation", " The Missing Theory", " Left- and Right-handed Snails", " Generation Gap", " Weak Interaction in the Primeval Oceans", " The Grin on the Tail of the Tiger", " Not Too Literally ...", "8. The Pattern of Tiny Feet", " No Bounds", " Horse Cents", " Bipedal Gaits", " Quadrupedal Gaits", " Central Pattern Generators", " Symmetries of Gaits", " Map of the Cat", " Two Oscillators", " Four Oscillators", " The Three-Legged Dog", " All Change", " Centipedes Revisited", "9. Icons of Chaos", " Fruit Flies on the Farm", " An Odd Equation", " Icons and Occilators", " Chaotic Quilts", "10. Well, Is She?", " Platonic Relationship", " Square Orbits", " Production-line Universe", " Dicing Deity Meets Geometer God", " Theory of Everything", " Nature or Nurture?", " The Human Angle", " Technology Transfer", " Twist and Shrink", " Not Just Groups", " Come On, Is She or Not?", "Further Reading", "Appendix 1 - Equations for Icons", "Appendix 2 - Computer Programs for Quilts", "Illustration Acknowledgements", "Index".

Symmetri og symmetribrud og dyrs gangarter. ( )

A welcome look at symmetry-breaking that shines a light on this underexposed area of maths. The book has lots of fascinating images, and gains bonus points for singing the praises of On Growth and Form. Its references to 'God' are intended metaphorically. ( )