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A Conceptual History of Space and Symmetry - From Plato to the Superworld (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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A Conceptual History of Space and Symmetry - From Plato to the Superworld (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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This book presents the author's personal historical perspective and
conceptual analysis on symmetry and geometry. The author enlightens
with modern views the historical process which led to the
contemporary vision of space and symmetry that are used in
theoretical physics and in particular in such abstract and advanced
descriptions of the physical world as those provided by
supergravity. The book is written intertwining storytelling and
philosophical argumentation with some essential technical material.
The author argues that symmetry and geometry are inextricably
entangled and their current meaning is the result of a long process
of abstraction which was determined through history and can be
understood within the analytic system of thought of western
civilization that started with the Ancient Greeks. The evolution of
geometry and symmetry theory in the last forty years has been
deeply and constructively influenced by supersymmetry/supergravity
and the allied constructions of strings and branes. Further
advances in theoretical physics cannot be based simply on the
Galilean method of interrogating nature and then formulating a
testable theory to explain the observed phenomena. One ought to
interrogate human thought, meaning frontier-line mathematics
concerned with geometry and symmetry in order to find there the
threads of so far unobserved correspondences, reinterpretations and
renewed conceptions.
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