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:

    “There is a small steam engine in his brain which not only sets the cerebral mass in motion, but keeps the owner in hot water.”
    —Unknown. New York Weekly Mirror (July 5, 1845)

    “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)