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Life's Other Secret: The New Mathematics Of The Living World

Is there an underlying set of principles that connects the pattern of a tiger's stripes with the design of a butterfly's wings? Are there hidden laws of life that lie deeper than DNA? According to award-winning science writer Ian Stewart, the answer is yes, and the hidden rules are called mathematics. In "Life's Other Secret"

Subject
science
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 285 pages

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