This Amazingly Symmetrical World

1st English language edition (1986)

Translated from the Russian.

Here is a fascinating and nontechnical introduction to the ubiquitous effects of symmetry. Starting with geometrical elements of symmetry, the author reveals the beauty of symmetry in the laws of physics, biology, astronomy and chemistry. He shows that symmetry and asymmetry form the foundation of relativity, quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, and atomic, subatomic, and elementary particle physics.