The power of shapes in nature

These are the last days of our wonderful vacation in New Zealand. It was also a gratifying trip for my botanical and scientific heart. Over the past decades I have grown more and more in the direction of geometry, more specifically the application of my work in mathematics, technology, science, and education. In science, much attention went to plants, more specifically to the development of a scientific method with better description of shapes in nature. Various notions such as the shape of leaves as elliptical, oblong, lanceolate or linear are now given a clear quantitative label, with two or three numbers, nothing more. <a href="https://medium.com/@johan.gielis/the-power-of-shapes-in-nature-2e7d82a35d4e">Website</a>