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Book Title
What Shape is a Snow Flake?: Magic Numbers in Nature
ISBN
9780716747949

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Freeman & Company, W&H
ISBN-10
0716747944
ISBN-13
9780716747949
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1913629

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
What Shape Is a Snowflake? : Magical Numbers in Nature
Subject
History & Philosophy, Natural History, General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Life Sciences / Biology, Physics / General
Publication Year
2001
Features
Revised
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Mathematics, Science, Psychology
Author
Ian Stewart
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
29.1 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
7.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-280019
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
510
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
The stripes of a zebra...the complexities of a spider's web...the waves of the ocean...and the shape of a snowflake. These and other natural patterns have been recognized by scientists for centuries. What do they have in common? They can all be accounted for mathematically. In What Shape is a Snowflake? internationally acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart shows how life on earth develops not simply from genetic processes, but also from the principles of mathematics. Starting with the simplest symmetrical patterns, each chapter looks at a different kind of patterning system and the key scientific issues that underlie it. Patterns can embrace chaos, fractals, dislocations, even statistical regularities, and are found in many things that at first seem irregular or featurless. A constant wind blowing over a flat expanse of sand, for example will develop ripples, which eventually lead to sand dunes that are often arranged in long parallel rows or other geometric forms. And the smooth surface of a growing organism will develop beautiful patterns, of spots, stripes and colors. Beautifully illustrated, What Shape is a Snowflake? is an illuminating and engaging vision of how the apparently cold laws of mathematics find organic expression in the beauty of nature.
LC Classification Number
QH323.5.S747 2001

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