CLIFF@IBM.COM ("Cliff Pickover") (12/13/90)
Some of you may be interested in the papers below. They are from a special series of 200 articles dealing with mathematics, biology, and art. I've listed some that have the most relevance to biologists below. Rather than have my electronic mail box swamped with mail, if you want to have a copy of 1 or 2 titles on this list, send me a hardcopy note, NOT an electronic note. Pickover, C. (1990) Who Are the Ten Most Influential Scientists in History? The History and Social Science Teacher, 25(3): 158-161. (The results come from a survey question posed to about 60 scientists. How many biologists do you think made this list?) Lakhtakia, A., Pickover. C. (1990) Some observations on palindromic numbers, J. Recr. Math., 22(1): 55-60. (Molecular geneticists are often interested in palidromes. This paper goes into some details about palindromic numbers) Pickover, C. (1990) Is there a double smoothly undulating integer? J. Recr. Math., 22(1): 77-78. (For those of you interested in genetic sequences of the kind GCGCGCGC, this may have some relevance). Pickover, C. (1990) The World of Chaos. Sept/Oct. Computers in Physics. 4(5):460-470. (Briefly describes some work in chaos and biology -- particularly in unusual fossil seashells.) Pickover, C. (1990) A random walk through a digital garden. Algorithm May/June 1.4: 12-14. (How to grow botanical forms using a computer.) Pickover, C. (1988) Mathematics and Beauty XI: A Sampling of Spirals and "Strange" Spirals in nature, science, and art., Leonardo May 21(2): 173-181.
TAS@cc.helsinki.fi (12/15/90)
What is the "hardcopy" address of Cliff Pickover? Iwould be interested in his papers. Best regards. Eva Tas <Tas@cc.Helsinki.Fi>