Spirals and Vortices In Culture, Nature, and Science /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tsuji, Kinko (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Müller, Stefan C. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: The Frontiers Collection,
• Subjects: Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Developmental biology.; Arts.; Human physiology.; Civilization-History.; Physical chemistry.; Complex Systems.; Developmental Biology.; Human Physiology.; Cultural History.; Physical Chemistry.

This richly illustrated book explores the fascinating and ubiquitous occurrence of spirals and vortices in human culture and in nature. Spiral forms have been used as elements in the arts for thousands of years, whereas their role in nature and science - from DNA and sea shells to galaxies - is stil...

Table of Contents:

• Part One
• Cultural History
• Appearance in Nature
• Arts and Beyond
• Part Two
• Spirals, their Types and Peculiarities
• Acoustic Spirals: Analysis of Bach's prelude in C major
• Part Three
• Liesegang Rings, Spirals and Helices
• Generation of Spirals in Excitable Media
• Chemical Oscillations and SpiralWaves
• Shedding Light on Chaos - Controlling Surface Reactions
• Part Four
• SpiralWaves of the Chemo-attractant cAMP Organise Multicellular Development in the Social Amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum
• SpiralWaves in the Heart
• Patterns and Humans
• Yet More Spirals
• Part Five
• Reaction-diffusion Patterns and Waves: From Chemical Reactions to Cardiac Arrhythmias
• A Lattice-gas Cellular Automaton Model for Discrete Excitable Media
• Kinematics of SpiralWaves in Excitable Media.