Book ID: CBB000951512

From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept (2008)

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Hon, Giora (Author)


Springer


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xvi + 335 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Focusing on 18th-century France, the book argues that the “key figure in revolutionizing the concept of symmetry is the mathematician, Adrien-Marie Legendre.” (from the publisher)


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Review Darvas, György (2010) Review of "From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 160). unapi

Essay Review Grant, Hardy (2009) What's in a Word? Symmetry through the Centuries. Historia Mathematica (pp. 171-177). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hon, Giora
Goldstein, Bernard R.
Massimi, Michela
Casini, Paolo
Martínez-Adame, Carmen
Vinci, Thomas C.
Concepts
Mathematics
Geometry
Symmetry
Philosophy of mathematics
Philosophy
Metaphysics
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Early modern
Medieval
Ancient
Places
France
Europe
England
Portugal
Brazil
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