Trees depicted in the artwork of famous painters like Leonardo da Vinci and Piet Mondrian follow the math behind ... observed that tree limbs preserve their thickness as they branch.

Scientists represent evolutionary relationships with tree diagrams (also called cladograms) because new life forms appear the way new branches appear on a growing tree. So, you can read a tree ...

This hidden math in some ... art with theories of branch thickness developed in biology,” researchers explained. open image in gallery Leonardo da Vinci's sketch of a tree illustrates the ...