Plant design correlates in interesting ways with math
- sciart0
- Apr 9
- 1 min read
Excerpt: "Narrator: These may sound like random numbers, but they're all part of what is known as the Fibonacci sequence, a series of numbers developed by a 13th century mathematician.'
Mario Livio: You start with the numbers one and one, and from that point on, you keep adding up the last two numbers. So one plus one is two, now one plus two is three. Two plus three is five. Three plus five is eight, and you keep going like this, five plus eight.
Narrator: Today, hundreds of years later, this seemingly arbitrary progression of numbers fascinates many who see in it clues to everything from human beauty to the stock market. While most of those claims remain unproven, it is curious how evolution seems to favor these numbers."