The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature

Ball, Philip

ISBN 10: 0198502443 / ISBN 13: 9780198502449

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999

About this Item

Jacket a little faded at spine. 250 x 190 mm. viii, 288 pp + 16 pages of colour plates. Extensive b&w figures in the text. A clean, presentable copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198502443
• ISBN 13: 9780198502449
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science

About this title

Synopsis

This text explains how nature's patterns - the markings on animals, windblown ripples of sand, the forms of water in motion - are woven by self-organization, through simple, local interactions between their component parts. The products of self-organization are universal patterns: spirals, spots and stripes, branches and honeycombs.

About the Author

Philip Ball, an editor at Nature since 1988, has written many scientific articles on all topics for the popular press. His first book, Designing the Molecular World, won the American Association of Publishers award for books on chemistry.