On Growth and Form
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
On Growth and Form is a book by the Scottish mathematical biologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. The book is 793 pages in the first edition of 1917, 1116 pages in the second edition of 1942.
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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE was a Scottish biologist, classicist and mathematician. He was a pioneer of mathematical and theoretical biology, travelled on expeditions to the Bering Strait and held the position of Professor of Natural History at University College, Dundee for 32 years, then at St Andrews for 31 years. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, was knighted, and received the Darwin Medal and the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal.
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