Do Plants Know Math?: Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals, from Leonardo Da Vinci to Now

＂This book tells the stories of the physicists, mathematicians, and biologists who found themselves magnetically drawn to Fibonacci spirals in plants, seeking an answer to why these beautiful and seductive patterns occur in botanical forms as diverse as pine cones, cabbages, and sunflowers.＂--Provided by publisher.

Stéphane Douady, who has researched plant patterns for thirty years, is a silver medalist CNRS director of research in the Matière et Systèmes Complexes Laboratory at Paris Cité University. Jacques Dumais works on plant-inspired technologies as a professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Science at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile. Christophe Golé runs the Plant Math Lab at Smith College, where he is a professor of mathematics. Nancy Pick is a science writer whose books include The Rarest of the Rare, telling the stories behind the natural history collections at Harvard University.