Book:Martin Gardner/The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings

Revised edition of from 1964.

Contents

 * Preface to the Third Edition
 * Preface to the Second Edition
 * Preface to the First Edition


 * 1. Mirrors
 * 2. Lineland and Flatland
 * 3. Solidland
 * 4. Magic
 * 5. Art, Music, Poetry, and Numbers
 * 6. Galaxies, Suns, and Planets
 * 7. Plants and Animals
 * 8. Asymmetry in Animals
 * 9. The Human Body
 * 10. The Sinistral Minority
 * 11. Crystals
 * 12. Molecules
 * 13. Carbon
 * 14. Living Molecules
 * 15. The Origin of Life
 * 16. The Origin of Asymmetry
 * 17. The Fourth Dimension
 * 18. The Ozma Problem
 * 19. Mach's Shock
 * 20. Parity
 * 21. Antiparticles
 * 22. The Fall of Parity
 * 23. Neutrinos
 * 24. Mr. Split
 * 25. The Fall of Time Invariance
 * 26. Where's the Antimatter?
 * 27. What Happened to the Monopoles?
 * 28. The Arrows of Time
 * 29. Entropy
 * 30. Time-Reversed Worlds
 * 31. Time-Reversed Persons and Particles
 * 32. Early Theories of Matter
 * 33. Spin
 * 34. Superstrings


 * Further Readings
 * Answers to Exercises
 * Index