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NATURE'S PATTERNS
NATURE'S PATTERNS
Subtitle:
A Tapestry in Three Parts: Part 3 Branching
Book Category:
Science > General
Author:
Ball, Philip
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 13:
9780199604883
Price:
USD 18.95
Publication Year:
2011

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Many patterns in nature show a branching form - trees, river deltas, blood vessels, lightning, the cracks that form in the glazing of pots. These networks share a peculiar geometry, finding a compromise between disorder and determinism, though some, like the hexagonal snowflake or the stones of the Devil's Causeway fall into a rigidly ordered structure. Branching networks are found at every level in biology - from the single cell to the ecosystem.

 

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