What shape is a snowflake?;
/ Ian Stewart.
- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001.
- 224 p. : il. ; 23 cm.
- Machine generated contents note: Part One: Principles & Patterns -- 1 The Puzzle -- 2 Nature's Patterns -- 3 What is a Pattern? -- Part Two: The Mathematical World -- 4 One Dimension -- 5 Mirror Symmetry -- 6 Rotational Symmetry -- 7 Tiling Patterns -- 8 Spots & Stripes -- 9 Three Dimensions -- 10 Scale & Spirals -- 11 Time -- Part Three: Simplicity & Complexity -- 12 Complexity & Catastrophe -- 13 Fractal Geometry -- 14 Order in Chaos -- 15 Laws of Nature -- 16 The Answer -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Index -- Acknowledgements. . -
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Meio Ambiente /
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