Can One Mathematical Model Explain All Patterns In Nature?
All patterns in nature might be describable using this mathematical theory. How did Alan Turing influence how we see the natural world? Who Was Ada ...
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You may have heard of Alan Turing, father of computer science and the mathematical genius who cracked the German Enigma Code during World War II -- a feat that Winston Churchill once remarked was “the secret weapon that won the war.” But what you probably didn’t know was that during his short lifetime, Alan Turing also proposed a theory to help explain a series of patterns that recur over and over again throughout the natural world -- like the spherical organization of cells in an embryo, the spiral arrangement of petals on a flower, the whorled tentacle pattern of a Hydra, the waves on a sand dune, the spots on a leopard and even the stripes on a zebra. Turing’s desire to understand nature’s recurring patterns stemmed from his fascination with Embryology. Turing wanted to know how the sm...
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You may have heard of Alan Turing, father of computer science and the mathematical genius who cracked the German Enigma Code during World War II -- a feat that Winston Churchill once remarked was “the secret weapon that won the war.” But what you probably didn’t know was that during his short lifetime, Alan Turing also proposed a theory to help explain a series of patterns that recur over and over again throughout the natural world -- like the spherical organization of cells in an embryo, the spiral arrangement of petals on a flower, the whorled tentacle pattern of a Hydra, the waves on a sand dune, the spots on a leopard and even the stripes on a zebra. Turing’s desire to understand nature’s recurring patterns stemmed from his fascination with Embryology. Turing wanted to know how the sm...
