Nature's Patterns: Branches
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Philip Ball explores the science of the branching patterns we see in nature, revealing that there is much more to these networks than meets the eye. Whether trees, snowflakes, forked lightning, or systems of arteries and veins, he explains how there are...
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Philip Ball explores the science of the branching patterns we see in nature, revealing that there is much more to these networks than meets the eye. Whether trees, snowflakes, forked lightning, or systems of arteries and veins, he explains how there are hidden rules at work that can give us extraordinary insights into the nature of life itself.
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As part of a trilogy of books exploring the science of patterns in nature, acclaimed science writer Philip Ball here looks at the form and growth of branching networks in the natural world, and what we can learn from them.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. Human-made networks too can come to share the
same features, and if they don't, then it might be profitable to make them do so: nature's patterns tend to arise from economical solutions.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Nature's Patterns: Branches “
From the contents:1: A Winter's Tale: The Six-Pointed Snowflake
2: Tenuous Monsters: Shapes Between Dimensions
3: Just For the Crack: Clean Breaks and Ragged Ruptures
4: Water Ways: Labyrinths in the Landscape
5: Tree and Leaf: Branches in Biology
6: Web Worlds: Why We're All in This Together
7: The Threads of the Tapestry: Principles of Pattern
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Autoren-Porträt von Philip Ball
Philip Ball, geboren 1962 in Newport / Isle of Wight, studierte Chemie und Physik in Oxford und Bristol, promovierte 1988. Er war zehn Jahre leitender Redakteur bei Nature, ist heute freier Publizist für Zeitungen und Zeitschriften wie "Nature" und "New Scientist". Ball hat vier Bücher geschrieben, darunter "Chemie der Zukunft", er lebt in London.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Philip Ball
- 2011, 3 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 13,1 x 19,6 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199604886
- ISBN-13: 9780199604883
Sprache:
Englisch
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