Computers as Botanists by W. T. Williams Professor of Botany in the University of Southampton
A botanist exploring a new region comes back with enormous quantities of new information. Scientists have long thought that such surveys could be analysed mathematically, but the calculations, like the data, are too much for the unaided human brain. Computers are changing the picture and Professor Williams explains how, at last, they may bring this
. problem within reach of solution.