scientific article; zbMATH DE number 232231
The authors describe how symmetry concepts occur in the nature, how they are used from earliest times in the arts and how they entered scientific thoughts. They emphasize the eminent role that these concepts play in chemical science (molecular hypothesis, crystallography etc.). The symmetry behaviour of a number of molecular orbitals is studied. The book is primary not aimed at mathematicians but at scientists in general. In fact, most of the examples come from chemistry and physics. (The authors are both professors of chemistry.) The text does not contain a mathematical theory but it uses some mathematical denotations and results -- referring to transformation groups, motion groups, symmetry operations, patterns, almost periodic tilings (results by R. Penrose). There is a number of good illustrations in the book.
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