Symbol, Pattern and Symmetry

Symbole sind allgegenwärtig! – Jede kulturelle Praxis ist stets und notwendig von Akten der Symbol-Produktion und der Symbol-Lektüre begleitet, in denen Kulturen ›symbolische Ordnu...

This chapter examines the causes of symmetric neurologic lesions in toxic and metabolic disease, trauma, neoplastic disease, vascular disease, and infectious disease. The importanc...

Abstract There is a tremendous fascination with chaos and fractals, about which picture books can be found on coffee tables everywhere. Chaos and fractals represent ...

Chapter 1 introduces central themes of the book by dealing with the importance of symmetry principles in physics and of small symmetry violations (or “flaws”) in establishing condi...

Designing Disability traces the emergence of an idea and an ideal — physical access for the disabled — through the evolution of the iconic International Symbol of Access (ISA). ...

First a general description of the concept of crystalline structures is presented with some historical background information. The classical approach of periodic structures is pres...

The chapter presents the two types of Romance palatalization that have given rise to patterns of allomorphy. These involve principally the first-person singular present indicative ...