Morphogenesis
Origins of Patterns and Shapes
Editors: Bourgine, Paul, LESNE, Annick (Eds.)
Free Preview- Covers all aspects of morphology: crystal growth, development of biological patterns, development of cities, development of the universe
- Integrates materials science, physics and biology
- Provides many insights into and an interesting view of the development of shapes and patterns
- Scientists, graduate students and interested laymen will benefit from this book
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What are the relations between the shape of a system of cities and that of fish school? Which events should happen in a cell in order that it participates to one of the finger of our hands? How to interpret the shape of a sand dune? This collective book written for the non-specialist addresses these questions and more generally, the fundamental issue of the emergence of forms and patterns in physical and living systems. It is a single book gathering the different aspects of morphogenesis and approaches developed in different disciplines on shape and pattern formation. Relying on the seminal works of D’Arcy Thompson, Alan Turing and René Thom, it confronts major examples like plant growth and shape, intra-cellular organization, evolution of living forms or motifs generated by crystals. A book essential to understand universal principles at work in the shapes and patterns surrounding us but also to avoid spurious analogies.
- Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-13
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Ferrofluids: A Model System of Self-Organised Equilibrium
Pages 15-39
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Hierarchical Fracture Networks
Pages 41-48
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Liquid Crystals and Morphogenesis
Pages 49-86
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Biological Self-Organisation by Way of the Dynamics of Reactive Processes
Pages 87-105
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Morphogenesis
- Book Subtitle
- Origins of Patterns and Shapes
- Editors
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- Paul Bourgine
- Annick LESNE
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-13174-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-13174-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-13173-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-42374-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 346
- Additional Information
- Original French edition published by Éditions Belin, Paris, 2006
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