Book:Ian Stewart/Mathematics of Life

Ian Stewart: Mathematics of Life

Published $\text {2011}$, Profile

ISBN 978 1 846 68205 6

Contents

Preface

1 Mathematics and Biology

2 Creatures Small and Smaller

3 Long List of Life

4 Florally Finding Fibonacci

5 The Origin of Species

6 In a Monastery Garden

7 The Molecule of Life

8 The Book of Life

10 Taxonomist, Taxonomist, Spare that Tree

11 Hidden Wiring

12 Knots and Folds

13 Spots and Stripes

14 Lizard Games

15 Networking Opportunities

16 The Paradox of the Plankton

17 What is Life?

18 Is Anybody Out There?

19 The Sixth Revolution

Notes

Acknowledgements

Index