Do Plants Know Math? ²⁶ Format:Hardcover 26 cm) 36 x 11

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and why plankton drift through the water

The plates and drawings together--almost half of them never before published--depict most of Venezuela's bird species

The volume begins with the tanagers

Do Plants Know Math? ²⁶ Format:Hardcover 26 cm) 36 x 11Charles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant spirals, growing so exasperated that he once begged a friend to explain the mystery if you wish to save me from a miserable death. The legendary naturalist was hardly alone in feeling tormented by these patterns. Plant spirals captured the gaze of Leonardo da Vinci and became Alan Turings final obsession. This book tells the stories of the physicists, mathematicians, and biologists who found themselves