In the 13th century, a mathematician named Leonardo Fibonacci discovered an important number sequence. It’s a very simple sequence of numbers, starting with the number one, twice, each succeeding number in the sequence is the sum of the two preceding numbers, so the sequence goes: 1, 1, 2, 3 , 5 ,8 and so on. And for reasons that are pretty mysterious, this sequence of numbers seems to appear in a wide variety of places in the natural world.

Fibonacci spirals are in scales all around us, from the DNA molecule, to the spiral galaxy.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 12th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
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