Timeline for Who first introduced the functional definition of symmetry?
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| Jan 2, 2015 at 20:43 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | Other reviews, to which I don't seem to have access, may be more positive: (three, four, five, six)... | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 20:33 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | @FrancoisZiegler Thanks for those reviews, which are indeed interesting. It seems the history of this concept is slippery; I'm inclined to agree with a remark mentioned in one of the reviews, that symmetry is a concept without a history, because it is innate. | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 20:08 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | Hon and Goldstein have expanded their thesis into a book which has interesting reviews (one, two): there «their argument that Legendre, the “hero” of their saga, (1) gave a “definition” of “symmetry” which was at once (2) a drastic break with the past and (3) a seminal influence on the future» is hotly contested on all 3 counts. | |
| Jan 2, 2015 at 15:58 | history | answered | Joel David Hamkins | CC BY-SA 3.0 |