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Passion des formes, à René Thom.

Passion des formes, à René Thom. where it will possibly go tomorrow can be found in the grand finale that volume 100 unarguably is. On my, highly subjective, scale of one to five I give this book five stars. Now go and buy it. Hans Heesterbeek DLO-Agricultural Mathematics Group Wageningen the Netherlands M. Porte (coordinateur), Passion des Formes, it Rend Thorn. ENS Editions Fontenay- Saint Cloud. 1994. ISBN 2-902126-09-3. A casebook by Mich~le Porte in tribute to Ren6 Thorn, the French mathematician, has just been published in French, entitled "Passion des Formes" (Passion for Forms) and subtitled: "Dynamique qualitative, S6miophysique et Intelligibilit6" (Qualitative dynamics, Semiophysics and Intelligibility). As a preface, two essays open up these two volumes amounting to over 800 pages, giving us an overview. Their keywords are quite telling: "Catastrophe Theory - Analytical extension - Shock - Aristotle's Physics - Qualitative, Formal Theory of Intelligibility - Function - Gender - Genericity" by Ren6 Thorn, echoed by those of Mich~le Porte: " Catastrophe Theory - Semiophysics - Continuum - Time - Logos - Ambiguity". In fact, this book could have been entitled: "From Catastrophe Theory to Semiophysics". For this is indeed Ren6 Thorn's train of thought as described in his preface: "Spectrum, an edge http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Biotheoretica Springer Journals

Passion des formes, à René Thom.

Acta Biotheoretica , Volume 44 (1) – May 1, 2004
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where it will possibly go tomorrow can be found in the grand finale that volume 100 unarguably is. On my, highly subjective, scale of one to five I give this book five stars. Now go and buy it. Hans Heesterbeek DLO-Agricultural Mathematics Group Wageningen the Netherlands M. Porte (coordinateur), Passion des Formes, it Rend Thorn. ENS Editions Fontenay- Saint Cloud. 1994. ISBN 2-902126-09-3. A casebook by Mich~le Porte in tribute to Ren6 Thorn, the French mathematician, has just been published in French, entitled "Passion des Formes" (Passion for Forms) and subtitled: "Dynamique qualitative, S6miophysique et Intelligibilit6" (Qualitative dynamics, Semiophysics and Intelligibility). As a preface, two essays open up these two volumes amounting to over 800 pages, giving us an overview. Their keywords are quite telling: "Catastrophe Theory - Analytical extension - Shock - Aristotle's Physics - Qualitative, Formal Theory of Intelligibility - Function - Gender - Genericity" by Ren6 Thorn, echoed by those of Mich~le Porte: " Catastrophe Theory - Semiophysics - Continuum - Time - Logos - Ambiguity". In fact, this book could have been entitled: "From Catastrophe Theory to Semiophysics". For this is indeed Ren6 Thorn's train of thought as described in his preface: "Spectrum, an edge

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