By Istvan Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai
The name of our quantity refers to what's good defined by means of the next quota tions:"Godcreated guy in his personal image"l and "Man creates God in his personal image."2 Our method of symmetry is subjective, and the time period "personal" symmetry displays this technique in our dialogue of chosen medical occasions. we've got selected six icons to represent six components: Kepler for modeling, Fuller for brand spanking new molecules, Pauling for helical constructions, Kitaigorodskii for packing, Bernal for quasicrystals, and Curie for dissymmetry. For the previous 3 many years now we have been focused on studying, pondering, conversing, and writing approximately symmetry. This involvement has augmented our critical actions in molecular constitution examine. Our curiosity in symmetry had all started with an easy fascination and has advanced right into a hugely charged own subject for us. initially of this quantity, we had had a number of authored and edited symmetry comparable books at the back of three us. We owe a debt of gratitude to the varied humans whose interviews are quoted four during this quantity. We a great deal delight in the type and gracious cooperation of Edgar J. Applewhite (Washington, DC), Lawrence S. Bartell (University of Michigan), R.
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Thanks to Martin Gardner for calling our attention to this reference. 25 "Polyhedral Kepler" by Istvan Orosz. 3 Johannes Kepler Albert Einstein wrote on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Kepler's death, in the Frankfurter Zeitung, November 9, 1930': It seems that the human mind has first to construct forms independently before we can find them in things. Kepler's marvelous achievement is a particularly fine example of the truth that knowledge cannot spring from experience alone but only from the comparison of the inventions of the intellect with observed facts.
Even his third law, the harmonic law,40 introduced in book V of The Harmony of the World itself, is buried among his ecstatic descriptions of the Divine Harmonies. It needed Newton's genius to notice them and dig them out. Koestler expresses this strange paradox with great insight when he says that Kepler set out to discover India and found America. This seems to be repeated over and over again in human history. And the importance of the result is indifferent of the motive. It is possible to understand what may have long hindered the recognition of a real scientist in Kepler.
The simplest symmetry considerations of the geometrical kind result in clear-cut yes/no-type answers, which is not the characteristic Japanese way to respond to questions of any degree of complexity. Many maintain in Japan that the Japanese do not like symmetry and prefer irregularity to regularity. The Japanese are good friends of Nature and do not want to change it to make any part of it artificially symmetrical. However, they appreciate the beauty that comes from symmetry and regularity, if these are natural.