by Celia Wood | Apr 2, 2020 | Independent Study
A common theme throughout discussions of the mathematics behind nature is the use of recursion. Recursion in computer science and mathematics refers to a function where it references itself. Recursion is the basic concept for the fractals I have been researching. The...
by Celia Wood | Apr 1, 2020 | Independent Study
While I was researching fractals, I read this article on a new curve that was identified in 2015. Mathematician and artist Edmund Harriss discovered a new fractal curve that no one had drawn before. Harriss was trying to draw branching spirals like those found in...
by Celia Wood | Apr 1, 2020 | Independent Study
My brother gave me a book by physicist Frank Wilczek, A Beautiful Question, which looks at the fundamental question of whether nature is essentially a “work of art.” Wilczek looks at how we can develop a “fully unified description of nature at the deepest level” by...
by Celia Wood | Mar 25, 2020 | Independent Study
After coming across the Harvard collection of glass invertebrates, I went looking for more information about the Blaschka models. I came across the book Sea of Glass: Searching For The Blaschka’s Fragile Legacy In An Ocean At Risk, by Dr. Drew Harvell. Harvell is a...
by Celia Wood | Mar 18, 2020 | Independent Study
After I encountered Haeckel, I began looking more into sea creatures and biological forms. During this research, I came across the Blaschka Glass Invertebrates Collection at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka were a father and son duo...
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