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Spiral symmetry

The spiral in nature, myth, and mathematics / J. Kappraff -- Does the golden spiral exist, and if not, where is its Center? / A.L. Loeb and W. Varney -- Pythagorean spirals / E.J. Eckert -- Dynamical spirals / A.V. Holden -- Random spirals / W.A. Seitz and D.J. Klein -- Spiral galaxies / B.G. Elmegreen -- Spiral-based self-similar sets / K. Wicks -- Symmetry and spirals: an artist's personal statement / R. Newman -- Spiral structures in Julia sets and related sets / M. Michelitsch and O.E. Rössler -- The evolution of a three-armed spiral in the Julia set, and higher order spirals / A.G. Davis Philip -- Autonomous organization of a chaotic medium into spirals: simulations and experiments / M. Markus -- Broken symmetry and the formation of spiral patterns in fluids / I. Stewart -- Oscillations, waves, and spirals in chemical systems / E. Körös -- Determination of spiral symmetry in plants and polymers / D. Friedman -- Electromagnetic theory for chiral media / A. Lakhtakia -- Sunflower quasicrystallography / L.A. Bursill, J.L. Rouse, and A. Needham -- On the origins of spiral symmetry in plants / R.V. Jean -- Green spirals / R. Dixon -- The form, function, and synthesis of the molluscan shell / M. Cortie -- Isometric systems in isotropic space: an artist's personal statement on spiral and other map projections / A. Denes -- Helmet / E. Kent -- Spinning descartes into blake: spirals, vortices, and the dynamics of deviation / K.L. Cope
eBook, English, ©1992
World Scientific Pub. Co, Singapore, ©1992
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