Structural Stability And Morphogenesis

ISBN-13: 9780201406856 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 404 str.

Rene Thom

Opis

An Outline of a General Theory of Models. Translation of Stabilite Structurelle et Morphogenese.

Spis treści

* Introduction * Form and Structural Stability * Structural Stability in Mathematics * Kinematic of Forms; Catastrophes * Elementary Catastrophes on R4 Associated with Conflicts of Regimes * General Morphology * The Dynamic of Forms * Biology and Topology * Local Models in Embryology * Global Models for a Living Being (Metazoa) * Models in Ultrastructure * The Basic Problems of Biology * From Animal to Man: Thought and Language

O autorze

Rene Thom