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The Mathematics of Trees

August 16, 2015

Claus Mattheck is constantly amazed by what trees have to teach us about the world around us. The physicist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology studies the shapes that trunks and leaves take, and has used some of them to describe fundamental properties of naturally-occurring forms.

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The research has helped engineers in a wide variety of fields to build components that are stronger and less apt to break.