EDITORIAL INFORMATION

With the concept of symmetry as the harmony of proportions, the human being has tried to create and understand order, beauty and perfection. This book presents a fascinating summary of the applications of the principle of symmetry in physics, chemistry, biology, its role in the arts and its manifestations in organic as well as inorganic nature.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Prefacio y notas bibliográficas.

-Simetría bilateral.

-Simetrías de traslación, de rotación y otras relacionadas.

-Simetría ornamental.

-Cristales. La idea matemática general de simetría.

-Apéndice A: Determinación de todos los grupos finitos de rotaciones propias en el 3-espacio.

-Apéndice B: Inclusión de rotaciones impropias.

-Agradecimientos.

-Indice.

OUR REVIEW

Symmetry is present both in nature and in artificial objects created by the Human Being. The author examines from a  mathematical viewpoint, not without including philosophical reflections, the different kinds of symmetry that exist, and their presence in natural or artificial structures. This implies tackling a varied set of questions, from the biological ones to the artistic ones, for instance, to many other kinds of questions as well.

Although Weyl's approach is mainly mathematical, and therefore necessarily technical, this book can attract also those readers not necessarily interested in mathematics, since symmetry has connotations of a very varied nature, including the religious ones, which the author also mentions.