Symmetry
Abstrak
The word "symmetry" is used in mathematics quite differently from in ordinary speech. In everyday life one applies it mainly to two-sided, right-left symmetry; but not so in mathematics. Admittedly, the word sometimes has a more general meaning in everyday speech. For example, everyone recognises that Figure 1 is highly symmetric, although it has no two-sided symmetry. However, this is really an exception. (The example of Figure 1 calls for some comment: in preparing this lecture it struck me that one can easily run into political or religious symbols when seeking examples of highly symmetric figures. This shows that symmetry has always had a powerful effect on people.)
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J. Tits
J. Stillwell
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- 2000
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- 1998×
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- 10.1080/00029890.2000.12005222
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