The Mathematical Code Hidden In Nature
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Published 2021-09-22
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How do zebras get their stripes? How do leopards get their spots? And how do giraffes get their giraffe-shaped thingies, whatever they are called? Would you believe the answer is… math? This is the story of a WWII wartime codebreaker and his quest to decode nature’s most beautiful patterns. Alan Turing uncovered a simple code that explains everything from stripes to spots and all the patterns in between… he was just too far ahead of his time. Only recently have biologists found evidence that his pattern-forming system
Alan Turing’s notes used by permission of King’s College, Cambridge (The Turing Papers collection)
Visit Dr. Natasha Ellison’s Turing Pattern Project to learn more: turing-pattern-project.group.shef.ac.uk/
Turing pattern simulations created using Jason Webb’s Reaction-Diffusion Playground: jasonwebb.github.io/reaction-diffusion-playground/
References: sites.google.com/view/turing-pattern-references/ho…
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All Comments (21)
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Can you believe nature's most beautiful patterns are made of… math? What's your favorite animal pattern? I know it's hard to pick just one, but leave a comment and let me know…
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I just love to see Alan Turing getting the respect he deserves.
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RIP Alan Turing... May you never be forgotten.
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Turing was a great mathematician that was killed by the prejudices of his time. Tragic and heartbreaking.
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I have a leopard gecko. When she was younger, she had no spots. Now that she is older, she has many spots. Watching this video and learning how her spots were formed was so interesting, thank you.
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Alan Turing will always be one of best people I look up to. His mathematical, scientific, and computing contributions to our modern society must be heavily acknowledged (as well as applied) ♡
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Look how society treated a genius such as Turing. Absolutely unforgivable.
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It’s so beautiful how mathematical models can describe complex biological phenomena! Especially when there are so many factors at play – like the diffusers and reactors. It is mindblowing that these equations can predict what will happen!
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What happened to Alan Turing was criminal. The guy saved who knows how many lives and they thank him by castrating him. He would've achieved so many great things. RIP.
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I knew about those patterns years ago when I was in college in a class called "computational biology" (I'm a software engineer by the way). To me, it was hands down the most awesome class of my entire career, until then I realized how brilliant Alang Turing was, and how powerful Mathematical models and computers can describe and solve almost any kind of problem that otherwise would be baffling. That single class made me love my career even more.
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Damn, Turing had a hand in this too? The guy saved so many lives and the things he discovered, the things he invented without it we just wouldn't be here. Yet the way he got treated and never really got the recognition and gratitude he deserved when he was alive, just because he was homosexual... Life just isn't fair.
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Thank you, Alan Turing. The world owes you. RIP
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Fun fact! Turing also independently discovered the central limit theorem, a fundamental part of statistics. The man's brilliance was astounding.
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I can't think of Alan Turing without thinking about how he saved the lives of people who punished him for being who he was, and caused him so much pain, he felt his only way out was to end his own life. It's not only sad that he went through this, but also that the people who did it to him couldn't see this great man who did so much good for the world during WWII and realize that there was no harm in homosexuality.
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We lost one of the best human mind ever to bigotry. And countless others to religious zealotry and misogyny. Makes you wonder how much further human endeavor would have come today if every part of society could participate freely in a world without prejudice. What a loss.
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Alan Turing is a lesson in the cost of limiting ideology.
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Yes! I recall a clip of an interview with one of Alan Turing's former co-workers at Bletchley Park code-breaking. I'm butchering the quote, but it's something like: "When you're talking to another very smart person, & s/he comes out with an idea, you might say to yourself, 'Oh- I could have thought of that.' But with Alan, he would come out with an idea, and you would b'e dumbfounded! 'Oh Geez - I NEVER would have thought of that!' He was constantly, amazingly brilliant!
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Thanks for not shying away from his real life, feelings, conviction, and death. I was never taught these things as a child in the 1970s, which would have helped me.
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I consider Mr. Turing a role model, and what he did after hours was his business and still his business.
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"Here, I practically won the War for us but I'm in love with a man" "Criminal"
