
Structural Stability And Morphogenesis
An Outline of a General Theory of Models
Rene Thom(Author)
Westview Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 1989
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Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-201-40685-6 (ISBN)
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An Outline of a General Theory of Models. Translation of Stabilit tructurelle et Morphog'se.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
583 gr
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978-0-201-40685-6 (9780201406856)
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Person
Rene Thom, professor at I.H.E.S., Bures-sur-Yvette since 1963, he was born in Montbeliard, France on September 2, 1923. Professor Thom studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure of Paris from 1943-46, and obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences in 1951. After a year spent at a graduate college of Princeton University, he was professor at the faculty of sciences of Strasbourg University from 1954-1963. In 1954 Professor Thom invented and developed the theory of cobordism in algebraic topology. This classification of manifolds used homotopy theory in a fundamental way and became a prime example of a general cohomology theory. For this work, Professor Thom received the Field Medal in 1958. Later on at I.H.E.S., he originated, with E. C. Zeeman, the celebrated Catastrophe Theory. Professor Thom is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academie des Sciences de Paris, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (DRG), and the Academy of Sciences of Brazil.
Content
* 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