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Amazing Snowflakes
Contributor(s): Matevosyan, Naira (Author), Matevosyan, Richard (Author)

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 ISBN: 1490933859     ISBN-13: 9781490933856
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $18.05  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: July 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Star Observation
- Nature | Natural Resources
Physical Information: 0.15" H x 8.5" W x 8.5" L (0.27 lbs) 58 pages
 
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"And it was then that all these kinds of things thus established received their shapes from the Ordering One, through the action of Ideas of Numbers" (Plato: in Timaeus). Indeed, Hamilton's 'Principle of Least Action' is mathematical discrimination between inorganic and organic systems. The geometrical progression of organic life has the property of producing by simple addition, a succession of numbers or similar shapes making the homothetic (gnomonic) growth-work by 'imbibition' (from inside outwards). Whereas, inorganic matters (crystals, snowflakes, rocks) grow by 'agglutination' (from outside inwards) and final distribution of energy to cause no further motion. While in inorganic growth (hexagonal), the Principle of Least Actions tends to save energy, inorganic or gnomonic growth (pentagonal) there is a tendency to save the substance. Involving the avid travelers "father jaguar and the cub," this tourbook of the "snow gallery" mathematically and geometrically analyzes the deposition, aggregation, capacitance, and velocity of the snowflake formation, vis a vis the hexagonal (honeycomb) tendency. When the tour is over, the cub classifies his most favorite snowflakes, giving them names.
 
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