Explains the scientific concept of symmetry, looks at various types of symmetry, and shows examples in design, ornament, art, and nature

The author discusses symmetric, full linear, orthogonal, and symplectic groups and determines their different invariants and representations. Using basic concepts from algebra ...

In this classic text first published in German in 1918-this is a translation by HENRY L. BROSE (1890-1965) of the 1921 fourth edition-Weyl considers the role of Euclidean space ...

Classic work, newly enlarged, provides excellent introduction to the basic concepts and terminology of symmetry, with lucid discussions of geometric symmetry, other symmetries ...

This landmark among mathematics texts applies group theory to quantum mechanics, first covering unitary geometry, quantum theory, groups and their representations, then ...

Eminent mathematician Hermann Weyl explores fundamental concepts in arithmetic. The book begins with the definitions and properties of algebraic fields, which are relied upon ...

Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) was one of the twentieth century's most important mathematicians, as well as a seminal figure in the development of quantum physics and general ...

History of mathematics.