Mathematical and theoretical biology, or biomathematics, is a branch of biology which employs theoretical analysis, mathematical modeling, and abstractions about living organisms to investigate the pr
Worker honeybees (Apis mellifera) build hexagonal wax combs that exemplify geometric optimisation.
Cell cycle bifurcation diagram
Tree of life by Haeckel
Alan Turing
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Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical comput
Mathematical and theoretical biology
…equation – continuous time, continuous state space, events occur continuously according to a random Wiener process. One classic work in this area is Alan Turing's paper on morphogenesis entitled The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis, published in 1952 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society…
Turing in 1951
English Heritage blue plaque in Maida Vale, London, marking Turing's birthplace in 1912
Turing at age 16, c. 1928 – c. 1929
Turing (seated second from left) in Cornwall, with fellow Shirburnians: Edwin Davis, John Bennett, Peter White, Peter Hogg (seated second from right), and Duncan Carse, in April 1930.