The mathematics of gnomonic seashells

DOI10.1016/0025-5564(83)90049-4zbMath0572.92003OpenAlexW2009026817MaRDI QIDQ1062636

Chris Illert

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-5564(83)90049-4

zbMATH Keywords

variational calculusenergy functionalsHooke's lawCartesian vector-valued functionsmolluscan shell shapesspiral shell geometrysymmetry equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) General biology and biomathematics (92B05)

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