Gerrit van Iterson

This page was created from the Dutch Wikipedia with the aid of automatic translation Gerrit van Iterson Jr (Roermond, 19 August 1878 – Wassenaar, 4 January 1972) was a Dutch botanist and professor who developed a mathematical approach to plant growth (phyllotaxis).

Gerrit van Iterson studied in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic in Delft from 1897 to 1901.

[1] Smith College's "About Phyllotaxis" page notes that the van Iterson Diagram of plant growth is related to a tiling of the hyperbolic plane.

[2] The thesis was somewhat forgotten during the twentieth century, but since the recent work of Stéphane Douady and Yves Couder, it has gained attention.

He was also the founder of the Cultuurtuin Technical Crops, today known as the TU Delft Hortus Botanicus.