The Boston Globe: The British soccer player David Beckham is famous for many things. His hairstyles (there’s a website that allows you to view yourself with 13 of his distinct do’s); his fashion choices (the British tabloids just loved his male sarong and pink nail polish); and his marriage to a pop star, Victoria Beckham -- Posh Spice of the Spice Girls.And then there’s his soccer fame, which is largely based on his innate command of the laws of physics.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.