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The Symmetries of Things John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss
Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Oct 24, 2005 - Symmetries, you may have heard, play a crucial role in modern physics. Dec 12, 2007 - This makes sense, because a symmetry describes what doesn't vary even as things change—the solid truth beneath the superficial difference. Sep 20, 2011 - While “very imperative” is inexcusable, there is such a thing as “very symmetrical”. Dec 9, 2012 - The salient point here is that two different compositions of symmetries can end up being the same thing. And there is much of symmetry about in the organic planet. Meaning symmetry often is one of those things we see but can't quite say. Mar 5, 2014 - More precisely, the fields described by propagating quantum strings seem to lose their gauge symmetry! Apr 7, 2012 - If there's something I have read quite a few instances, it really is that physicists (and by association astronomers), really like symmetry. Sep 6, 2013 - Symmetry knows symmetry. Sep 2, 2009 - Physicists are obsessed with symmetry, perhaps even more than people with an OCD. But defining symmetry in a few words without handwaving sometimes leads only to hand waving. Suddenly things aren't looking so miraculous. Geologists, mineralogists especially, deal with symmetry all of the time, and some of the most amazing naturally symmetric things I've ever seen are minerals. A symmetry of an object is a transformation that leaves the object looking exactly the same. Apr 18, 2011 - I was surprised that your symmetry episode didn't talk to any mineralogists. Oct 26, 2009 - Mathematicians sometimes (usually) turn things the other way round: They define a group by the properties above, and then observe that the collection of symmetries of an object fits the definition. It's human nature to look at something symmetric and call it beautiful.