NATURE'S PATTERNS |
Subtitle:
A Tapestry in Three Parts: Part 3 Branching
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Book Category:
Science > General
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Author:
Ball, Philip
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Binding:
Paperback
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ISBN 13:
9780199604883
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Price:
USD 18.95
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Publication Year:
2011
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Publisher Info
Kimberly Craven,
Oxford University Press,198 Madison Ave.,
New York ,
New York - 10016-4314,USA
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Book Description
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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