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By Istvan Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai

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The name of our quantity refers to what's good defined by means of the next quota­ tions:"Godcreated guy in his personal image"l and "Man creates God in his personal image."2 Our method of symmetry is subjective, and the time period "personal" symmetry displays this strategy in our dialogue of chosen clinical occasions. we have now selected six icons to represent six parts: Kepler for modeling, Fuller for brand new molecules, Pauling for helical constructions, Kitaigorodskii for packing, Bernal for quasicrystals, and Curie for dissymmetry. For the earlier 3 a long time now we have been fascinated by studying, pondering, talking, and writing approximately symmetry. This involvement has augmented our important actions in molecular constitution examine. Our curiosity in symmetry had begun with an easy fascination and has advanced right into a hugely charged own subject for us. in the beginning of this quantity, we had had a number of authored and edited symmetry similar books at the back of three us. We owe a debt of gratitude to the various humans whose interviews are quoted four during this quantity. We greatly delight in the type and gracious cooperation of Edgar J. Applewhite (Washington, DC), Lawrence S. Bartell (University of Michigan), R.

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Life in the cities was different. He called the relationship "inversy" and constructed the following simple scheme: Townsfolk: surroundings/geometrical, arts/natural Nomads: surroundings/natural, arts/geometrical Thus, the surroundings and the aesthetic creations complement each other. The nomads did not need to carry the "portrait" of an oak with them because they could view all sorts of oaks every day, every hour. The townsfolk's inclination to depict nature in their arts was seen to be a kind of nostalgia.

And later yet, our daughter, Eszter Hargittai. There was another famous high school at that time in Budapest: the Lutheran high school, or Fasor Gimntizium, where Wigner and Neumann, among others, went. 53. George Hevesy's family had been elevated to nobility and this is why his name appears often as von Hevesy or de Hevesy, depending on the language context. The same is true for von Neumann and von Karman. The "von" or "de" are not part of the original Hungarian names. 54. "An Index to Michael Polanyi's Contribution to Science," in The Logic of Personal Knowledge, London, Routledge and Kegan, 1961, pp.

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