In Patterns in Nature, Ball brings his own background as ... The explanations Ball offers are simple and graceful, as when he explains how a soaked patch of ground can dry into a cracked landscape.

It probably looked a little peculiar. A grown man (me), slithering along the hillside on his belly, swimming through thistles and thorns, snapping pictures like a paparazzi gone plant-crazy. But, you ...

The reason patterns often appear in nature is simple: The same basic physical or chemical processes occur in many patterned substances and organisms as they form. Whether in plants and animals or ...

Saloni G., age 16, Alwar, Rajasthan, India The reason patterns often appear in nature is simple: The same basic physical or chemical processes occur in many patterned substances and organisms as ...

So is nature actually full of patterns or are we simply too good at ... the answer is far from simple and far from definitive. A lot of natural structures, to us, have distinct patterns so we ...

He lightly ties the work together with snippets of scientific history, using bits of physics, chemistry, and mathematics to show that although patterns ... for displays of nature’s patterned ...

The math concept hidden in this tree art — geometric shapes known as fractals — is apparent in branching patterns in nature and may ... and generalized it into a simple common formula ...

In Patterns in Nature, Ball brings his own background as ... The explanations Ball offers are simple and graceful, as when he explains how a soaked patch of ground can dry into a cracked landscape.