USA: John Wiley & Sons,
Inc., 2010, 295 p.
A Birkhäuser book (2007) on
Symmetry
by György Darvas
Flyer and Order form
(.pdf)
by Ian Stewart
Basic Books Inc. (2007)
From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept
by Giora Hon and Bernard R. Goldstein
Series: ARCHIMEDES, New Studies in the History of Science and Technology, Vol. 20
Springer (2008)
How Science and Nature Are Founded on Symmetry
by Joe Rosen
Series:
The Frontiers Collection
Springer (2008)
by
John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss
A
K Peters, Ltd. (2008)
Symmetrical Analysis Techniques for Genetic Systems and Bioinformatics:
Advanced Patterns and Applications
by Sergey V. Petoukhov and Matthew He
IGI Global (2009)
Configurations of Points and Lines
by Branko Grünbaum
American Mathematical Society (2009)
Over
the listed scientific monographs there were published a few further
books recently that made a good service for the popularization of
symmetry studies in the wide public and among pupils and undergraduate
students:
Avner Ash and Robert Gross: Fearless Symmetry, Princeton University Press (2006)
Mark Ronan: Symmetry and the Monster, Oxford University Press, New York (2006)
Mario Livio: The golden ratio and aesthetics (2002)
Hats
from Mozambique - Chapeus de Mocambique
by Paulus Gerdes
Dear
colleagues,
I
have the pleasure to announce the publication of a booklet
with full colour photographs of hats woven with palm leaves.
You may see beautiful shapes, curves, spirals, polygons, designs
and patterns, and attractive symmetries... :
From the introduction:
This booklet “Hats from Mozambique” presents photographs of woven hats I have
collected since the 1980s from four coastal regions of Mozambique: the districts
of Palma and Mecúfi in the Cabo Delgado Province in the North, and the districts
around the Bay of Inhambane and the Manjacaze District in the Gaza Province
in the South (see the map on page 9). Some of the hats presented here, like
the ones from Palma and the hats from Inhambane decorated with band or plane
patterns, are exceptional and very rare...
I trust that the photographs may convey an impression of the beauty and diversity
of hats made in Mozambique, and of the creativity and imagination of the women
and men who weave them.
The book "Hats
from Mozambique - Chapeus de Mocambique" (ISBN 978-0-557-38758-80), published by the 'Associacao Indico' (Maputo), is
available both in print and as download from www.lulu.com at http://stores.lulu.com/pgerdes
(52 pages).
Please, forward to those who may be interested.
best regards,
Paulus Gerdes
Centro de Estudos Moçambicanos e de Etnociência (CEMEC), Universidade Pedagógica
Av. Salvador Allende 366, 1 andar
C.P. 915, Maputo, Moçambique
Recent
books by Paulus Gerdes
http://stores.lulu.com/pgerdes
Matrix Genetics, Algebras of
Genetic Code, Noise-immunity
by Sergey V. Petoukhov
(in Russian)
This book describes the utility of matrix methods to
represent and to analyze hierarchical systems of genetic encoding for
mathematical classification and for modeling natural forms of ordering these
systems. The work demonstrates a connection of forms of ordering genetic code
with special algebras, and also with a series of other well known mathematical
structures: Hadamard matrices, double numbers, transformations of hyperbolic
turns, the golden section, the Pythagorean musical scale,
etc.These
algebras (e.g., that of quaternions) are related to special multidimensional
geometries. They
permit to develop new models in the fields of molecular genetics,
bioinformatics and mathematical biology in general.
The received data reveal adequacy of matrix
mathematics from the theory of discrete signal processing and noise-immunity
coding to investigate molecular systems of genetic encoding. They give
additional bases to think that structures of genetic code are determined in
many respects by demands of noise-immunity of genetic information.
There
are some chapters in the book which refer explicitly to
symmetry: they are chapter VII (Symmetry in finite words and in
languages (p.219-250) and the section "Symmetry phenomena in infinite
words (p.365-372). But there are many other chapters referring to
symmetry phenomena under some specific forms, such as periodocity
and its extensions, (almost periodicity, quasiperiodicity),
attractors,etc.:chapter IV, Numbers as words (p.127-154), chapter IX,
Infinite words (p.337-380), chapter X, Biology and
languages(p.381-432), and chapter XI, Chemistry and languages
(p.433-448)are in this situation.The other chapters too have strong
links with symmetey phenomena.
