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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Fibonacci numbers

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGeOWYOFoA




FIBONACCI SEQUENCE INSPIRED ART

































I have always loved the Fibonacci sequence and its link with nature....I thought I would share some with you.....
































































About Fibonacci
Fibonacci was known in his time and is still recognized today as the "greatest European mathematician of the middle ages." He was born in the 1170's and died in the 1240's and there is now a statue commemorating him located at the Leaning Tower end of the cemetery next to the Cathedral in Pisa. Fibonacci's name is also perpetuated in two streetsthe quayside Lungarno Fibonacci in Pisa and the Via Fibonacci in Florence.His full name was Leonardo of Pisa, or Leonardo Pisano in Italian since he was born in Pisa. He called himself Fibonacci which was short for Filius Bonacci, standing for "son of Bonacci", which was his father's name. Leonardo's father( Guglielmo Bonacci) was a kind of customs officer in the North African town of Bugia, now called Bougie. So Fibonacci grew up with a North African education under the Moors and later travelled extensively around the Mediterranean coast. He then met with many merchants and learned of their systems of doing arithmetic. He soon realized the many advantages of the "Hindu-Arabic" system over all the others. He was one of the first people to introduce the Hindu-Arabic number system into Europe-the system we now use today- based of ten digits with its decimal point and a symbol for zero: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. and 0His book on how to do arithmetic in the decimal system, called Liber abbaci (meaning Book of the Abacus or Book of calculating) completed in 1202 persuaded many of the European mathematicians of his day to use his "new" system. The book goes into detail (in Latin) with the rules we all now learn in elementary school for adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing numbers altogether with many problems to illustrate the methods in detail. ( http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html#Rabbits )



The Fibonacci numbers are Nature's numbering system. They appear everywhere in Nature, from the leaf arrangement in plants, to the pattern of the florets of a flower, the bracts of a pinecone, or the scales of a pineapple. The Fibonacci numbers are therefore applicable to the growth of every living thing, including a single cell, a grain of wheat, a hive of bees, and even all of mankind.
Stan Grist

6 comments:

  1. Beautiful macro photos and nice blog!

    Big kisses from Croatia.
    Zondra Art

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  2. Siempre he admirado esta secuencia y las aplicaciones que durante siglos el arte le ha dado,sobretodo el las proporciones de la arquitectura del Renacimiento.Un post muy bonito,
    Bss
    Cecilia

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  3. ♥ Olá, amiga!
    Passei para uma visitinha...♥♥
    Amei os padrões dos quadros e das plantas!...♥
    ♥ Bom fim de semana!
    Beijos.
    ♥♥ Itabira
    Brasil♥♥
    ✿ܓܓ✿ܓ✿ܓ

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  4. I have seen this site before. I Love Fractals, Rose Rushbrooke does this type off.

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  5. I am visiting you after seeing your comment at Mary Helen F blog.
    I Love how that goes here in blogland :)
    So much to see and enjoy on your lovely blog.

    Congratulations on your newest applique design, it is beautiful!
    oxo

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