Author | Caglioti, Giuseppe. author |
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Title | The Dynamics of Ambiguity [electronic resource] / by Giuseppe Caglioti |
Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1992 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58080-2 |
Descript | XXI, 170 p. online resource |
Insert Synergetics -- One Ambiguity in the Cultural Relationship Between Man and Natural Structures -- Insert Symmetry, Simplicity, Order -- Two Natural Structures -- 1. Atomic Modules Constituting Molecular and Crystalline Structures -- 2. Binary Structures: Chemical Bond of the Electrons in Molecules -- 3. Binary Structures: Dynamics of Electrons in Molecules -- 4. Binary Structures and the Bit of Information -- Insert Symmetry, Information and Ambiguity in Quantum Physics and Design -- Three Symmetry and Broken Symmetry in Science, in Perception and in Art -- 1. Symmetry, Conservation and Constants of Motion: The Privileged Role of the Energy Operator -- 2. Perturbation-Induced Breakings of Symmetry and Restructuring of the Dynamic Architecture of Atoms and Molecules -- Four Entropy and Information -- 1. Entropy and the Principles of Thermodynamics -- 2. Statistical Significance of Entropy: Disorder and Disinformation -- 3. More About Entropy, Order, Information and Symmetry -- 4. Information in Languages, in Musical Language and Genetic Language -- Five The Dynamics of Ambiguity -- 1. Dynamics of the Perception of Ambiguous Structures -- 2. Symmetry as Persistence of Significance as the Result of Structural Transformations, and the Role of Symmetry Breaking in Poetry, Music and the Visual Arts -- Inserts The Musicality in Virgil -- Exchange Symmetry -- The Game of Broken Symmetries in the Industrial Trademark -- Selfsimilarity in Nature and Culture: The Fractals -- Six Conclusions