书目名称 | Space Structures | 编辑 | Arthur L. Loeb | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Design Science Collection | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | xiv aggregates: this touches on the very nature of things. The concept of statistical symmetry which Loeb develops is particularly important, it emphasizes the limitations in seemingly random aggregates and for permits general statements of which the crystallographer‘s sym metries are only special cases. The reductionist and holistic approaches to the world have been at war with each other since the times of the Greek philosophers and before. In nature, parts clearly do fit together into real structures, and the parts are affected by their environment. The problem is one of understanding. The mystery that remains lies largely in the nature of structural hierarchy, for the human mind can examine nature on many different scales sequentially but not simultaneously. Arthur Loeb‘s monograph is a fundamental one, but one can sense a devel opment from the relations between his zero-and three-dimensional cells to the far more complex world of organisms and concepts. It is structure that makes the difference between a cornfield and a cake, between an aggregate of cells and a human being, between a random group of human beings and a society. We can perceive anything only when we perceive i | 出版日期 | Book 1991 | 关键词 | Statistica; boundary element method; form; group; mathematics; society; symmetry | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0437-4 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4612-6759-1 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4612-0437-4 | copyright | Arthur L. Loeb 1991 |
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