Symmetry

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...

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...

This book provides a nonmathematical survey of the past half-century of research in particle physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology bearing on the physical conditions that allow o...

This chapter focuses on the theory of current-driven Rashba torque, a special type of spin–orbit mediated spin torque that requires broken spatial-inversion symmetry. This specific...

This chapter describes how Islamic architecture developed more sober and abstract tendencies during the religious reforms of 1100-1250 CE as two successive Berber dynasties, first ...