Structural stability and morphogenesis;: An outline of a general theory of models

by René Thom

Book Overview

An Outline of a General Theory of Models. Translation of Stabilit tructurelle et Morphog'se. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805392769
• ISBN13: 9780805392760
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: W. A. Benjamin
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.

Customer Reviews

the only thing he left out was black holes

I would say his book is very visionary and inspiring of thought. You need some mathematical maturity to understand some of his notation, but there isn't a lot of it. It's more of a science book than a math book in my opinion. His pictures of examples of all of the kinds of the 7 catastrophes were very insightful. This caused me to think of examples on my own.

Thom Sctructural Stability and Evolution Explanation

Thom stablished the foundantions of a new and powefull tool of exploring the non linear behaviour of the physics and byological phenomena. It's impossible to understand the universe and the life evolution whithout help of the catastrophe theory.