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UNINA9910300558803321 |
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Autore |
Fré Pietro Giuseppe |
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Titolo |
A Conceptual History of Space and Symmetry [[electronic resource] ] : From Plato to the Superworld / / by Pietro Giuseppe Fré |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2018.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (323 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Physics |
Quantum field theory |
String theory |
Gravitation |
History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics |
Quantum Field Theories, String Theory |
Mathematical Methods in Physics |
Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The Episteme -- Symmetry and Mathematics -- How Group Theory came into Being -- From Crystals to Plato -- The Long Tale of Lie Groups -- Hermann Weyl and Representation Theory -- A Short History of Differential Geometry -- Geometry Becomes Complex -- Geometry Becomes Special -- Black Holes: The Physics of Geometry -- Modern Manifolds from Ancient Polyhedra -- Epilogue. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book presents the author’s personal historical perspective and conceptual analysis on symmetry and geometry. The author enlightens with modern views the historical process which led to the contemporary vision of space and symmetry that are used in theoretical physics and in particular in such abstract and advanced descriptions of the physical world as those provided by supergravity. The book is written intertwining storytelling and philosophical argumentation with some essential technical material. The author argues that symmetry and geometry are inextricably entangled and their current meaning is the |
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