Site Represents a site. Prim Media 606 Show Point true Place The town or city 44 South Street, St Andrews KY169JT Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's House Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived mathematicalycurious Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 315 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.3394305415866,-2.7921058237552643; Description An account of the resource Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson II (1860 – 1948) was a zoologist considered by some as the "father of mathematical biology". He was born in Edinburgh on May 2, 1860 and died on June 21, 1948 at his house in St Andrews. His professorship at the University College of Dundee, and then at St Andrews holds the record for the longest tenure of any academic (64 yrs.) and is unlikely to be broken due to modern employment legislation. Most consider Thompson’s greatest work to be On Growth and Form, a book in which he explores in great detail the mathematical patterns that can be found in nature. His use of Cartesian grid transformations in modelling evolutionary processes is still an area of modern research. Thompson’s influence has been wide-reaching: from inspiring the likes of Alan Turing’s morphology research to playing a key role in the development of 3D animation. <p>To see more information on the work and impact of Sir Thompson, click <a href="https://maths.curious-sta.org/the-work-and-impact-of-sir-darcy-wentworth-thompson/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource jb402@st-andrews.ac.uk Subject The topic of the resource Mathematics,Natural History Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT