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Quite often, science and art are considered as the ""two cultures"" that divide our society into two separate groups. However, important phenomena in science and art have a common root. Using the concept of broken symmetries, the author of this book explains the similarities between the process of creating an art work and that of creating a scientific theory, as well as the similarity between the process of perception and measurement. Symmetry is the succession of static and balanced structures. 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 of the emotional and rational spheres match. The dynamics of perception (the transformation leading to a choice) involve well-known physical phenomena such as symmetry, entropy and others. The book contains numerous illustrations and aims to strike a balance between popular material and technical material. It is intended to appeal to the interests of science and arts students/researchers and also to the interested layperson.

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