Mirror Symmetry

Mirror symmetry may refer to:

  • Mirror symmetry (string theory), a relation between two Calabi-Yau manifolds in string theory
  • Homological mirror symmetry, a mathematical conjecture about Calabi-Yau manifolds made by Maxim Kontsevich
  • Reflection symmetry, a geometrical symmetry with respect to reflection

Famous quotes containing the words mirror and/or symmetry:

    “If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.”
    —Ralph J. Cudworth (1617–1688)

    “What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)