The SSA in NYC logo includes a simplified atomic model, symbolizing the most valuable scientific information obtained by the human civilization, as stated by Richard Feynman in his "The Laws of Thermodynamics:"

"If, in some cataclysm, all scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or atomic fact or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms... In that one sentence you will see an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied."

On the background of the logo, is the Leonardo's Vitruvian man.

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What is the importance of the Leonardo's Vitruvian man?

• First, the Vitruvian man symbolizes the Life Sciences.

• Second, it links Life Sciences and Mathematics.

Leonardo uses the Roman architect Vitruvius' archetypal proportions of the human body and the Golden Ratio to "solve" his day's great squaring of the circle problem - to greater than 99.8% accuracy.

For all practical purposes, Leonardo's solution, encoded in his Vitruvian Man, is definitive. His solution is also ingenious, previously undiscovered and elegant in its simplicity.

A geometric solution of 100% is not possible.

Klaus Schröer (Das Geheimnes der Proportionsstudie, Waxmann Publisher, Germany, 1998) is the first to recognize that Leonardo, in his Vitruvian Man, is attempting to square the circle, i.e., to demonstrate how a square and circle of equal area can be created.