This cutaway of a nautilus shell shows its chambers and reveals ... “It is a prime example of why geometry needs to be taught more widely and not only geometry, but the visual appreciation ...

So Domokos bought two nautilus shells and presented them to Reg&odblac ... Questions about soft geometry are particularly tricky to study because they tend to defy disciplinary boundaries.

‘Geometry can be very simple ... as well as the 3D compartments of spiral shells such as those of the nautilus, a marine mollusc (see ‘Nature’s soft cells’). Nature generally seeks ...

A cross section of a chambered nautilus shell shows the newly defined shape ... the segmented shapes appear to have corners, but the 3D geometry of the chambers does not have any.

X-ray of Nautilus Shell (Edward Charles Le Grice, c.1910) shows how progressive rhythym can be found in nature. The shell is made up of a series of identically-shaped sections that grow larger as ...