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Name: Branches
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199237982
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Автор: Philip Ball

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Издател: Oxford University Press

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As part of a trilogy of books exploring the science of patterns in nature, acclaimed science writer...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Philip Ball

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2009

страници

240

EAN

9780199237982

ISBN

0199237980

Enbook ID

04034594

Издател

Oxford University Press

Теглоt

416

Размери

147 x 222 x 22

Пълно описание

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.

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