Symmetry in Crystallography
Understanding the International Tables
ISBN13: 9780199550654ISBN10: 0199550654
Hardback,
148 pages
Nov 2011,
In Stock
Price:
$89.95 (06)Description
This book presents the reader with a fresh and unconventional approach to teaching crystallographic symmetry. Whereas traditional crystallography textbooks make a heavy use of algebra and rapidly become very technical, this book adopts in the first few chapters a 'pictorial' approach based on the symmetry diagrams of the International Tables for Crystallography. Readers are led step-by-step through simple 'frieze' and 'wallpaper' patterns, with many examples from the visual arts. At the end of chapter 3 they should be able to identify and analyse all these simple symmetries and apply to them the nomenclature and symbols of the International Tables. Mathematical formalism is introduced later on in the book, and by that time the reader will have gained a solid intuitive grasp of the subject matter. This book will provide graduate students, advanced undergraduate students and practitioners in physics, chemistry, earth sciences and structural biology with a solid foundation to master the International Tables of Crystallography, and to understand the relevant literature.Features
- A fresh and unconventional approach to teaching crystallographic symmetry
- Easy to follow step-by-step approach
- Rigorous presentation that is nonetheless very appealing
- Thousands of people use the Iinternational Tables of Crystallography without fully understanding them: this book fills an important gap
Product Details
148 pages; 57 b/w line drawings and 13 halftones; 9.7 x 7.4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-955065-4ISBN10: 0-19-955065-4About the Author(s)
Following a Laurea degree at the Universita degli Studia di Milano and a PhD at Illinois Institute of Technology, Professor Radaelli has held posts at the Argonne National Laboratory, CNRS Grenoble, the Institute Laue-Langevin and the ISIS Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. His main interest is the study of transition metal oxides displaying novel physical phenomena, such as high-temperature superconductivity, 'colossal' magneto-resistance or multiferroics behaviour, with the potential of device applications. He is now Dr Lee's Professor of Experimental Philosophy at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University
