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When a system undergoes a transformation, yet an underlying physical property remains unchanged, this property is referred to ...

YOU might remember learning about symmetry at school. Maybe a teacher showed you a snowflake’s six-fold symmetry and you marvelled at how it looked the same no matter how you rotated it. Well, it ...

Over the past few weeks I’ve been onsite helping some customers update their network architectures and network management strategies. During these discussions I was reminded that since many network ...

Anyone who thinks math is dull will be delightfully surprised by this history of the concept of symmetry. Stewart, a professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick (Does God Play Dice?), ...

In the very first microseconds of the Big Bang, something strange happened. Matter somehow outnumbered antimatter and kept the fledgling universe from annihilating itself. This break with conventional ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 93, No. 25 (Dec. 10, 1996), pp. 14243-14248 (6 pages) Symmetry is commonly observed in many biological systems.

Is there a term for the shape shown above: a smooth, continuous curve with three axes of symmetry? And if anyone could share the equation for this curve, I would be very grateful. The plate appears to ...