Growth and Form 100

"I know that in the study of material things number, order and position are the threefold clue to exact knowledge; and that these three, in the mathematician’s hands, furnish the ‘first outlines for a sketch of the Universe’".

D'Arcy Thompson. On Growth and Form. 1917

On Growth and Form is a book by the Scottish mathematical biologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948). The centenary of publication has recently been celebrated by a major conference, On Growth and Form 100.