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I trace the evolution of the scientific world view in general and of the variational approach specifically, including transformation groups I then review the impact of these ideas at the atomic, nuclear and particle levels.
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Ne’eman, Y. Symmetry and “Magic” Numbers or from the pythagoreans to Eugene Wigner. Acta Phys. Hung. A 19, 241–246 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1556/APH.19.2004.3-4.14
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Keywords
- symmetry
- laws of nature
- variational calculus
- action principle
- Pythagoreanism
- path-integral
- Noether theorems
- music of the spheres