Following on from last year’s project with Alice and Indre, interns from the School of Mathematics, this year we had two more interns working with… Read More »D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson and his mathematical friendships
The next report from our 2018 Visiting Scholars is by Lee Chichester of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In this report Lee Chichester shares her research examining the… Read More »“The Debt of Art to Nature”: A Travelling Exhibition Inspired by D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form
In the second of the reports from our 2018 Visiting Scholars, Matthew Holmes, then of the University of Leeds, now Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University… Read More »An Experimental Take on D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form
Over the summer, two undergraduate students Alice Gowenlock and Indre Tuminauskaite, took part in a research internship funded by the Strathmartine Trust and the School… Read More »D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Mathematics
There has been a lot of research interest in the work of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson in the last few years. 2017 marked the centenary of… Read More »D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson as teacher
Two students from the Mathematics Department, Heather Dickinson and Barbora Cernakova, recently undertook an internship, funded by the Strathmartine Trust, which involved consultation of the papers… Read More »‘On Growth and Form’ and mathematical biology
In the summer of 2013, the University Library set out to capture the reactions of academic and library staff when encountering their favourite items from the… Read More »TREASURES OF THE LIBRARY PODCAST: Dr Martin Milner on D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s personal copy of On Growth and Form
