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2007 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Symmetry, invariance, harmony
The interpretation of the concept of symmetry in everyday life, science and art
Erschienen in: Symmetry
Verlag: Birkhäuser Basel
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“How nice and symmetrical,” we often say or think to ourselves. The associations that the word awakens in us depend on the experiences in our past that have established its meaning for us. The term ‘symmetry’ can have three separate types of meaning, as a phenomenon, a concept, or an operation. The
phenomenon
is what we consider to be symmetrical on the basis of our experience or of knowledge we have learned. The
concept
is what circumscribes all such phenomena. The
operation
is what gives rise to the phenomenon or makes it possible.