Tag: snail
Mathematical game: the swallow and the snail
How far will the Betaville swallow travel towards Alphaville? One snail starts from Alphaville at a speed of 1 km/h to get to Betaville, 21 kilometers away. At the same…
No bud, no forest
We eat a lot of buds : the asparagusthe artichokesthe onions, capers, cabbage, etc. But do we know that the bud is the essential element of a plant’s life? The…
A mathematical model to explain the coiling of mollusc shells
What do a snail shell, climbing vines and ram’s horns have in common? All of these biological structures have a spiral shape. To understand the formation of this geometry, a…