Morphogenesis, Volume 3 (Collected Works of A.M. Turing)

by Unknown Author

Hardbound.

Genres: Science

Hardcover

First published November 1, 1992

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[Jeff Cliff · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a trip. From a mind-blowing paper on morphogenesis that completely changes the way I look at plants and other more simple life(especially flowering plants), to some serious thought of diffusion problems in the development of phylotaxis...there's a lot going on in this relatively short book.

I felt that while each line of reasoning sounded plausible and there wasn't anything that was *really* a surprise in terms of notation/mathematical concepts (and where there was stuff that was unfamilliar, like the Legendre polynomials, Saint Turing usually took time to explain himself ) in terms of what he was doing in his manipulation of his equations, some of the rationale for *why* he was doing what he was doing was clearly and definitely above me. I feel like this is, like his other works, immediately valuable but would become more valuable if the reader had more 'hooks' to understand the significance of what he's saying - ie it's a well thought through little set of papers.

I'm going to be thinking of the contents of this book for a long time, I suspect.