2010 Volume 86 Issue 3 Pages 158-164
Fermions and bosons are quite different kinds of particles, but it is possible to unify them in a supermultiplet, by introducing a new mathematical scheme called superalgebra. In this article we discuss the development of the concept of symmetry, starting from the rotational symmetry and finally arriving at this fermion-boson (FB) symmetry.
(Communicated by Toshimitsu YAMAZAKI, M.J.A.)