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The Dynamics of Ambiguity

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  • © 1992

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Authors:
  1. Giuseppe Caglioti

    1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Nucleare Politecnico di Milano, CESNEF, Milano, Italy

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXI
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  2. Introduction

    • Giuseppe Caglioti
    Pages 1-9

  3. Ambiguity in the Cultural Relationship Between Man and Natural Structures

    • Giuseppe Caglioti
    Pages 11-24

  4. Natural Structures

    • Giuseppe Caglioti
    Pages 25-53

  5. Symmetry and Broken Symmetry in Science, in Perception and in Art

    • Giuseppe Caglioti
    Pages 55-70

  6. Entropy and Information

    • Giuseppe Caglioti
    Pages 71-94

  7. The Dynamics of Ambiguity

    • Giuseppe Caglioti
    Pages 95-134

  8. Conclusions

    • Giuseppe Caglioti
    Pages 135-137

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 139-170
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About this book

A fascinating topic! A fascinating book! Quite often, science and art are considered as the "two cultures" dividing our society into two separate groups. However, important phenomena in science and art have a common root. By using the concept of broken symmetries the author enlightens the similarities between the process of creation of an art work and of a scientific theory, as well as the similarity between the process of perception and measurement. Symmetry is a no-change as the outcome of a change. In order to obtain information, the symmetry of an initially balanced system must be broken. The consequence is ambiguity, the critical point of any dynamical instability. Here the world of physics and emotional and rational spheres match.The dynamics of perception (the transformation leading to a choice) involve well known physical phenomena like symmetry, entropy and others. Many illustrations and a strict ratio between popular inserts and technical chapters make this a scintillating book explaining why sciences and arts have in common the feature of universality.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria Nucleare Politecnico di Milano, CESNEF, Milano, Italy

    Giuseppe Caglioti

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Dynamics of Ambiguity

  • Authors: Giuseppe Caglioti

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58080-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-52020-7Published: 06 November 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-63463-5Published: 27 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-58080-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 170

  • Additional Information: Original Italian edition published by Clup Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria del Politecnico, Milano

  • Topics: Mathematics, general

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