1st Edition

Structural Stability And Morphogenesis

By Rene Thom Copyright 1989
    400 Pages
    by CRC Press

    404 Pages
    by CRC Press

    An Outline of a General Theory of Models. Translation of Stabilit tructurelle et Morphog‘se.

    * 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

    Biography

    Rene Thom