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The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature - Couverture souple

Ball

 
9780198502432: The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0198502435 ISBN 13 : 9780198502432
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Why do similar patterns and forms appear in nature in settings that seem to bear no relation to one another? The windblown ripples of desert sand follow a sinuous course that resembles the stripes of a zebra or a marine fish. In the trellis-like shells of microscopic sea creatures we see the same angles and intersections as for bubble walls in a foam. The forks of lightning mirror the branches of a river or a tree. This book explains why these are no coincidences. Nature commonly weaves its tapestry by self-organization, employing no master plan or blueprint but by simple, local interactions between its component parts - be they grains of sand, diffusing molecules or living cells. And the products of self- organization are typically universal patterns: spirals, spots, and stripes, branches, honeycombs. This book explains, in non-technical language, and with profuse illustrations, how nature's patterns are made.

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À propos de l'auteur

Philip Ball is an editor at Nature magazine.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198502435
ISBN 13 
9780198502432
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
456
Coordonnées du fabricant
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