Structural stability and morphogenesis - an outline of a general theory of models

Abstract

* Introduction * Form and Structural Stability * Structural Stability in Mathematics * Kinematic of Forms Catastrophes * Elementary Catastrophes on R4 Associated with Conflicts of Regimes * General Morphology * The Dynamic of Forms * Biology and Topology * Local Models in Embryology * Global Models for a Living Being (Metazoa) * Models in Ultrastructure * The Basic Problems of Biology * From Animal to Man: Thought and Language