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Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar. 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 ...
D'Arcy Wentworth (14 February 1762 – 7 July 1827) was an Irish-Australian surgeon and the first paying passenger to arrive in the new colony of New South Wales. He served under the first seven governors of the Colony, and from 1810 to 1821, he was "great assistant" to Governor Lachlan Macquarie.
Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS [ 1] FRSE ( 2 de maio de 1860 — 21 de junho de 1948) foi um biólogo e matemático escocês. Viajou em expedições ao estreito de Bering e foi professor de história natural na University college, Dundee durante 32 anos e em St Andrews durante 31.
25 de out. de 2017 · The Scientist Who Cracked Biology’s Mysteries With Math | WIRED. Stephen Wolfram. Backchannel. Oct 25, 2017 6:45 AM. Are All Fish the Same Shape If You Stretch Them? The Victorian Tale of On Growth...
30 de abr. de 2024 · Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson was a Scottish zoologist and classical scholar noted for his influential work On Growth and Form (1917, new ed. 1942). Thompson was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, the University of Edinburgh, and at Trinity College, Cambridge (1880–83). In 1884 he became professor.
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1 de fev. de 2017 · D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, the man who shaped biology and art. A show marking the centenary of the publication of Thompson's On Growth and Form celebrates the wide-ranging influence of his...
On Growth and Form is a book by the Scottish mathematical biologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948). The book is long – 793 pages in the first edition of 1917, 1116 pages in the second edition of 1942. The book covers many topics including the effects of scale on the shape of animals and plants, large ones necessarily being ...
