Main entry:

Ball, Philip, 1962-

Title & Author:

Nature's patterns : a tapestry in three parts / Philip Ball.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Description:

3 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
"Nature's patterns is a trilogy composed of Shapes, Flow, and Branches."
Rev. and expanded version of: The self-made tapestry : pattern formation in nature. 1999.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
[V. 1.] Shapes : The shapes of things: pattern and form -- Lessons of the beehive: building with bubbles -- Making waves: stripes in a test tube -- Written on the body: hiding, warning, and mimicking -- Rhythms of the wild: crustal communities -- How does your garden grow?: the mathematics of a daisy -- Unfolding the embryo: the formation of body plans -- Appendices : 1. Soap-film structures -- 2. Oscillating chemical reaction -- 3. Chemical waves in the BZ reaction -- 4. Liesegang bands.
[V. 2.] Flow :The man who loved fluids: Leonardo's legacy -- Patterns downstream: ordered flows -- On a roll: how convection shapes the world -- Riddle of the dunes: when grains get together -- Follow your neighbour: flocks, swarms, and crowds -- Into the maelstrom: the trouble with turbulence -- Appendices : 1. Bénard convection -- 2. Grain stratification in a Makse cell.
[V. 3.] Branches : A winter's tale: the six-pointed snowflake -- Tenuous monsters: shapes between dimensions -- Just for the crack: clean breaks and ragged ruptures -- Water ways: labyrinths in the landscape -- Tree and leaf: branches in biology -- Web worlds: why we're all in this together -- Epilogue: The threads of the tapestry: principles of pattern -- Appendix : The Hele-Shaw cell.

Summary:

"Ball takes us on an inspiring journey into the depths of nature, encompassing all the sciences, in which we discover that broad and elegant principles underpin the formation of the countless beautiful patterns around us."--Inside jacket.

Resources:
ebrary
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ISBN:

9780199237968 (hardback ; pt. 1)
0199237964 (hardback ; pt. 1)
9780199237975 (hardback ; pt. 2)
0199237972 (hardback ; pt. 2)
9780199237982 (hardback ; pt. 3)
0199237980 (hardback ; pt. 3)
9780199604876 (pbk. pt. 2)
0199604878

Subject:

Pattern formation (Physical sciences)
Pattern formation (Biology)
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Formation des structures (Sciences physiques)
Formation des modèles (Biologie)
Chaos.
Musterbildung.
Strukturbildung.
Symmetrie Natur.
Natur Symmetrie.
Form Natur.
Natur Form.
Formació de les estructures (Ciències físiques)
Formació de models (Biologia)
Caos (Teoria de sistemes)

Added entries:

Ball, Philip, 1962- Shapes.
Ball, Philip, 1962- Flow.
Ball, Philip, 1962- Branches.
Ball, Philip, 1962- Self-made tapestry.
Shapes.
Flow.
Branches.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 264204
Call No.: Q172.5.C45 B3 2009
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 261739
Call No.: Q172.5.C45 B3 2009
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main 263493
Call No.: Q172.5.C45 B3 2009
Copy: v. 3
Status: Available