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Ian Stewart - The Royal Society Michael Faraday Lecture
Riddles of Form: Discovering Order and pattern in the Universe
Hay Festival 1996,
The patterns that occur in the form and behaviour of living creatures are usuallu explained in terms of genes and DNA. However, mathematics also plays a role, as examples from the numerolgy of plants and the rhythms of animal movement demonstrate. (No specialist knowledge or mathematical ability required)