Patterns

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"A dazzling 'tour de force' on patterns. It is a substantial, original contribution by a leader--indeed, originator--in the field, and has the potential for significant impact on the direction of future research. It includes a profoundly insightful treatise on patterns, their nature, and the role of randomness in generating and analyzing them. Examples range from language to weaving to cellular biology. Even non-statisticians and non-scientists reading this material will find their thoughts clarified and provoked."--'Alan F. Karr, National Institute of Statistical Sciences' "When reading this book, one is in contact with the work and philosophy of a masterful mathematical scientist. Permeating the text is a sense of being true to the complex reality and intricacies of the problems that the mathematics seeks to explain, of problmes solved succesfully by application of a deep theory developed for that purpose, and of the sheer joy taken in that accomplishment."--'Journal of the American Statistical Association' "This book should be of interest to readers in fields as diverse as cultural anthropology, biology, and image analysis."'Mathematical Reviews'