THE NEW AMBIDEXTROUS UNIVERSE Symmetry and Asymmetry, from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings

by Gardner, Martin

3rd Edition

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Book description: NY: W. H. Freeman & Company, 1990 THIRD REVISED EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover with unclipped pictorial dust jacket. 8vo (6.5 x 9.5"). xiv, (ii), 392, (8) pp. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, blind-stamped Magritte image on cover. Illustrated with numerous B&W photographs and line drawings. This is a new, unopened volume, with only a small ownership stamp on rfep, else as new. The dust jacket is also as new. FINE+/AS NEW. This is a substantial revision of Gardner's well-known work on mirror symmetry and asymmetry. The book opens with puzzling questions on why mirrors reverse left to right but not up to down, and then takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through two fundamental scientific discoveries of the twentieth century: the asymmetric DNA helix and the overthrow of parity (left-right symmetry) in particle physics. . 3rd Edition. Hard Cover. Fine+/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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