- Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz is a Polish
computer scientist who advanced the idea thatFibonacci number s in nature can be in part understood as the expression of certain algebraic constraints onfree group s, specifically as certain Lindenmayer grammars. Prusinkiewicz's main work is on the modeling of plant growth through such grammars.Prusinkiewicz received his
PhD from theWarsaw University of Technology in 1978, and is currently a professor ofComputer Science at theUniversity of Calgary (the faculty page at the institution links to a file that demonstrates the pronunciation of his name). [http://jungle.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/people/index.html] Prusinkiewicz received the 1997SIGGRAPH "Computer Graphics Achievement Award" for his work. [http://old.siggraph.org/awards/1997/AchievementAward.html]Publications
*cite book|first=Przemyslaw|last=Prusinkiewicz|coauthors=James Hanan|title=Lindenmayer Systems, Fractals, and Plants (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics)|publisher=Springer-Verlag|year=1989|id=ISBN 0-387-97092-4
*cite book|first=Przemyslaw|last=Prusinkiewicz|coauthors=Aristid Lindenmayer |title=The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (The Virtual Laboratory)|publisher=Springer-Verlag|year=1990|id=ISBN 0-387-97297-8|url=http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop (available as aPDF )
*cite book|first=Hans|last=Meinhardt|authorlink=Hans Meinhardt|coauthors=Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Deborah R. Fowler|title=The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells|edition=3rd edition|publisher=Springer-Verlag|year=2003-02-12 |id=ISBN 3-540-44010-0External links
* [http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~pwp/ Biography of Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz] from the
University of Calgary
* [http://algorithmicbotany.org/ Laboratory website] at theUniversity of Calgary
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