Metapatterns

Metapatterns

Editorial Reviews
WHOLE EARTH REVIEW, winter 1995
Why do suns, eggs, grapes, baseballs, and cathedral domes take a spherical form? What do rivers, blood vessels, nerve nets, and royal scepters have in common? How do we reduce time to spatial patterns in order to grasp it? This remarkable book explores certain common forms--spheres, tubes, sheets, centers, binaries, borders--which appear and reappear on different levels of reality. The author skillfully identifies the functional relationship each represents, and shows how they operate in many different situations, whether physical, biological, social, or mental.

Tyler Volk has created a new genre for thinking about ourselves, our world, and our creations, and has done it with clarity, grace, and humor. In this book he has built an intricate rope bridge from the inquiries of Pythagoras and Plato to the modern panoramas of art and science.

This book opens new perspectives rather than final answers. It is a real mind-opener.

Publishers Weekly
Volk gives us new ways of thinking about and looking at the world.

Metapatterns

Metapatterns,Tyler Volk,Columbia University Press,0231067518,General,Metaphysics,Science,Science/Mathematics

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