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Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 2 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 2001–2020, suosituimpiin kuuluu The Self-Made Tapestry. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.

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The Self-Made Tapestry

The Self-Made Tapestry

Ball

Oxford University Press
2001
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Why do similar patterns and forms appear in nature in settings that seem to bear no relation to one another? The windblown ripples of desert sand follow a sinuous course that resembles the stripes of a zebra or a marine fish. In the trellis-like shells of microscopic sea creatures we see the same angles and intersections as for bubble walls in a foam. The forks of lightning mirror the branches of a river or a tree. This book explains why these are no coincidences. Nature commonly weaves its tapestry by self-organization, employing no master plan or blueprint but by simple, local interactions between its component parts - be they grains of sand, diffusing molecules or living cells. And the products of self- organization are typically universal patterns: spirals, spots, and stripes, branches, honeycombs. This book explains, in non-technical language, and with profuse illustrations, how nature's patterns are made.