Simmetrie

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SIMMETRIA IN MATEMATICA E NELLE SCIENZE

Simmetria in generale

  • Hermann Weyl - Symmetry (1989)
  • Eugene Paul Wigner - Symmetries and Reflections: Scientific Essays (1979)
  • Gian Carlo Ghirardi - Simmetrie. Nell’arte e nella scienza (2019)
  • Gian Carlo Ghirardi - Simmetrie. Principi e forme naturali (2019)
  • Elena Castellani - Simmetria e Natura. Dalle armonie delle figure alle invarianze delle leggi (2000)
  • Vincenzo Barone - L’ordine del mondo. Le simmetrie in fisica da Aristotele a Higgs (2013)
  • Joe Rosen - Symmetry Rules How Science and Nature Are Founded on Symmetry (2008)
  • Pietro Giuseppe Fré - A Conceptual History of Space and Symmetry. From Plato to the Superworld (2018)
  • Kathleen Brading, Elena Castellani (a cura di) - Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections (2010)
  • Klaus Mainzer - Symmetry and Complexity. The Spirit and Beauty of Nonlinear Science (2005)
  • György Darvas - Symmetry. Cultural-historical and Ontological Aspects of Science-Arts Relations

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Simmetria in matematica: divulgazione

  • John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss - The Symmetries of Things
  • Ian Stewart - Symmetry A Very Short Introduction
  • Ian Stewart - Why Beauty Is Truth. The History of Symmetry
    trad.it. L’eleganza della verità. Storia della simmetria
  • Ian Stewart, Martin Golubitsky - Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer?
    trad. it. Terribili simmetrie. Dio è un geometra? (1995)
  • Marcus Du Sautoy - Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician’s Journey Through Symmetry (2012)
    trad.it. Il disordine perfetto: L’avventura di un matematico nei segreti della simmetria
  • Alan Holden - Shapes, Spaces and Symmetry

Simmetria in Fisica: divulgazione

  • Dwight E. Neuenschwander - Emmy Noether’s Wonderful Theorem (2011)

  • Elena Castellani - Simmetria e realtà - Le Scienze Quaderni 118 (2001)

  • Richard P. Feynamn - Six not-so-easy piece, cap. 2 “Symmetry in Physical Laws”
    trad.it. Sei pezzi meno facili.

  • Stephen Blundell - Superconductivity: A Very Short Introduction, cap. 6 “Symmetry” (2009)
    trad.it. Superconduttività.

  • Alan Holden, Phylis Singer - La struttura dei cristalli. L’ordine nella natura

  • Kerson Huang - Fundamental Forces of Nature. The Story of Gauge Fields

  • Leon M. Lederman, Christopher T. Hill - Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe

  • Bruce A. Schumm - Deep Down Things. The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics (2004)

  • Anthony Zee - Fearful Symmetry. The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics- (2007)

  • Frank Close - Lucifer’s Legacy. The Meaning of Asymmetry (2013)

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Introduzione alla teoria dei gruppi

  • Nathan Carter - Visual Group Theory (2009)
  • John Stillwell - Naive Lie Theory
  • Kristopher Tapp - Symmetry A Mathematical Exploration
  • David W. Farmer - Groups and symmetry A guide to discovering mathematics
  • D.L. Herrmann, P.J. Sally Jr. - Number, Shape, & Symmetry. An Introduction to Number Theory, Geometry, and Group Theory (2012)
  • Lara Alcock - How to Think About Abstract Algebra (2021)
  • Charles C. Pinter - A Book of Abstract Algebra (2010)

Introduzione alla teoria dei gruppi per fisici

  • Stephen Haywood - Symmetries and Conservation Laws in Particle Physics. An Introduction to Group Theory for Particle Physicists (2010)
  • Roy McWeeny - Symmetry: An Introduction to Group Theory and Its Applications
  • Anthony Zee - Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists
  • Nadir Jeevanjee - Introduction to Tensors & Group Theory For Physicists

Simmetria in Fisica: Approfondimenti

  • Arnout Ceulemans, Pieter Thyssen - Shattered symmetry group theory from the eightfold way to the periodic table
  • Jakob Schwichtenberg - Physics from Symmetry
  • Kurt Sundermeyer - Symmetries in Fundamental Physics

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