![TURING, Alan. 'The chemical basis of morphogenesis.' Offprint from: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, ser. B, Biological Sciences, no. 641, vol. 237. London: 1952. 4° (300 x 234mm). [36pp. 37-72] Original printed buff wrappers (lightly creased throughout). [With:] WARDLOW, Claude Wilson (1901-1985). Morphogenesis in Plants. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1952. Small 8° (167 x 105mm). Half-title. 4 plates, illustrations in the text. Original cloth, dust-jacket (extremities rubbed, d.j. with tear to upper cover and spine browned). Provenance: Claude Wilson Wardlow (presentation copy dated 14 October 1952 to:) -- Alan Turing.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CKS/2013_CKS_01176_0136_000(turing_alan_the_chemical_basis_of_morphogenesis_offprint_from_philosop111803).jpg?w=1)
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TURING, Alan. 'The chemical basis of morphogenesis.' Offprint from: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, ser. B, Biological Sciences, no. 641, vol. 237. London: 1952. 4° (300 x 234mm). [36pp. 37-72] Original printed buff wrappers (lightly creased throughout). [With:] WARDLOW, Claude Wilson (1901-1985). Morphogenesis in Plants. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1952. Small 8° (167 x 105mm). Half-title. 4 plates, illustrations in the text. Original cloth, dust-jacket (extremities rubbed, d.j. with tear to upper cover and spine browned). Provenance: Claude Wilson Wardlow (presentation copy dated 14 October 1952 to:) -- Alan Turing.
TURING AND THE SECRET OF LIFE. At a time when Crick and Watson were using x-ray diffraction to establish the structure of DNA, Turing was grappling with a theoretical understanding of how information might be spread and diffused at a chemical level. In a classic statement of the scientific method Turing wrote: '"a mathematical model of the growing embryo will be described. This model will be a simplification and an idealisation, and consequently a falsification. It is to be hoped that the features retained for discussion are those of greatest importance in the present state of knowledge". The result was applied mathematics par excellence. Just as the simple idea of the Turing machine had sent him into fields beyond the boundaries of Cambridge mathematics, so now this simple idea in physical chemistry took him into a region of new mathematical problems' (Hodges p.434). (2)
TURING AND THE SECRET OF LIFE. At a time when Crick and Watson were using x-ray diffraction to establish the structure of DNA, Turing was grappling with a theoretical understanding of how information might be spread and diffused at a chemical level. In a classic statement of the scientific method Turing wrote: '"a mathematical model of the growing embryo will be described. This model will be a simplification and an idealisation, and consequently a falsification. It is to be hoped that the features retained for discussion are those of greatest importance in the present state of knowledge". The result was applied mathematics par excellence. Just as the simple idea of the Turing machine had sent him into fields beyond the boundaries of Cambridge mathematics, so now this simple idea in physical chemistry took him into a region of new mathematical problems' (Hodges p.434). (2)
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