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`It is a stimulating book with a personal note. One reads it with pleasure. I can recommend it without any hesitation.'
Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie
`The book gives a fascinating overview of the rich variety of applications of symmetry throughout chemistry, showing both its power and its aesthetic appeal.'
Science, from a review of the First Edition
Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie
`The book gives a fascinating overview of the rich variety of applications of symmetry throughout chemistry, showing both its power and its aesthetic appeal.'
Science, from a review of the First Edition
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Fundamental phenomena and laws of nature are related to symmetry, and, accordingly, symmetry is one of science's basic concepts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
symmetry group orbitals, homochiral halves, antisymmetric behavior, totally symmetric irreducible representation, ith irreducible representation, molecular point group, closo boranes, angular wave function, threefold rotation axis, semiregular polyhedra, twofold rotation axes, perpendicular symmetry plane, icosahedral packing, nonbonded distances, stellated dodecahedron, symmetry plane perpendicular, periodic drawings, densest packing, same irreducible representation, eclipsed form, symmetry elements, screw axes, twofold rotation axis, crystal point groups, electronegative ligand Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, John Wiley, American Chemical Society, Pierre Curie, Pergamon Press, Dover Publications, Oxford University Press, Tetrahedron Lett, Adaptation of Figure, Buckminster Fuller, Chemical Applications of Group Theory, Clarendon Press, Molecular Symmetry Symmetry Molecular, New Jersey, World Scientific, After Wells, Cambridge University Press, Ferenc Lantos, Plenum Press, Regular Polytopes, The Nobel Foundation, Acta Crystallogr, Cornell University Press, Henri Matisse New!
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Fundamental phenomena and laws of nature are related to symmetry, and, accordingly, symmetry is one of science's basic concepts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
symmetry group orbitals, homochiral halves, antisymmetric behavior, totally symmetric irreducible representation, ith irreducible representation, molecular point group, closo boranes, angular wave function, threefold rotation axis, semiregular polyhedra, twofold rotation axes, perpendicular symmetry plane, icosahedral packing, nonbonded distances, stellated dodecahedron, symmetry plane perpendicular, periodic drawings, densest packing, same irreducible representation, eclipsed form, symmetry elements, screw axes, twofold rotation axis, crystal point groups, electronegative ligand Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, John Wiley, American Chemical Society, Pierre Curie, Pergamon Press, Dover Publications, Oxford University Press, Tetrahedron Lett, Adaptation of Figure, Buckminster Fuller, Chemical Applications of Group Theory, Clarendon Press, Molecular Symmetry Symmetry Molecular, New Jersey, World Scientific, After Wells, Cambridge University Press, Ferenc Lantos, Plenum Press, Regular Polytopes, The Nobel Foundation, Acta Crystallogr, Cornell University Press, Henri Matisse New!
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- Chemical Applications of Group Theory, 3rd Edition by F. Albert Cotton on 5 pages
- Symmetry In Science and Art by A. Shubnikov on 4 pages
- Regular Polytopes by H. S. M. Coxeter on 4 pages
- Fivefold Symmetry by Istvan Hargittai in Front Matter, page 19, and Back Matter
- Elementary Crystallography by Martin J. Buerger on page 359, page 379, and Back Matter
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- The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction (International Union of Crystallography Texts on Crystallography, 5) by Christopher Hammond on page 56, and Back Matter
- Chemical Group Theory: Introduction and Fundamentals (Mathematical Chemistry) by Danail Bonchev on page 129, and page 204
- Fivefold Symmetry by Istvan Hargittai on page 29, and page 404
- In Our Own Image: Personal Symmetry in Discovery by István Hargittai in Front Matter, and page 15
- Übungen zur Stereochemie: 191 Aufgaben und Lösungen (German Edition) by Karl-Heinz Hellwich in Back Matter
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