The beauty of ballerinas and equations, spirals and snails

At a first glance, the natural world appears messy and arbitrary. A pile of data about trees, moose, or any other organism often looks as random as a phone book. And yet, we almost always find some very simple and beautiful mathematical relationships which underlie such messiness. Finding such simple and beautiful mathematics beneath our … Continue reading The beauty of ballerinas and equations, spirals and snails