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A CONCEPTUAL HISTORY OF SPACE AND SYMMETRY - PI...

This book presents the author¿s personal historical perspective and conceptual analysis on
symmetry and geometry. The author enlightens with modern views the historical process which led
to the contemporary vision of space and symmetry that are used in theoretical physics and in
particular in such abstract and advanced descriptions of the physical world as those provided
by supergravity. The book is written intertwining storytelling and philosophical argumentation
with some essential technical material. The author argues that symmetry and geometry are
inextricably entangled and their current meaning is the result of a long process of abstraction
which was determined through history and can be understood within the analytic system of
thought of western civilization that started with the Ancient Greeks. The evolution of geometry
and symmetry theory in the last forty years has been deeply and constructively influenced by
supersymmetry supergravity and the allied constructions of strings and branes. Further advances
in theoretical physics cannot be based simply on the Galilean method of interrogating nature
and then formulating a testable theory to explain the observed phenomena. One ought to
interrogate human thought  meaning frontier-line mathematics concerned with geometry and
symmetry in order to find there the threads of so far unobserved correspondences 
reinterpretations and renewed conceptions.

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