Arnout Ceulemans: 2 books
Shattered Symmetry
Group Theory From the Eightfold Way to the Periodic Table
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
The standard model of subatomic particles and the periodic table of the atoms have the common goal to bring order in the bewildering chaos of the constituents of matter. Their success relies on the presence of fundamental symmetries in their core. The purpose of the book is to share the admiration...
by Arnout Jozef Ceulemans
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Chemists are used to the operational definition of symmetry, which crystallographers introduced long before the advent of quantum mechanics. The ball-and-stick models of molecules naturally exhibit the symmetrical properties of macroscopic objects. However, the practitioner of quantum chemistry and...