The fabulous Fibonacci flower formula
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- You probably know that nature is crawling with the Fibonacci numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc. But have you ever seen a simple explanation for this phenomenon? This video is the result of my own quest to distill a really accessible explanation from existing research.
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In the last video on continued fractions I mentioned that part of the explanation involves the golden ratio and the fact that this number is the most irrational number. I'll talk about this in a follow-up video. If you cannot wait check out this website: www.maths.surre...
Also check out the following video produced as part of research by Douady and Couder about how simple displacement at the center of a plant gives rise to Fibonacci numbers of spirals
• Douady & Couder Magnet...
The paper itself can be found here www.math.ntnu....
Another very interesting approach by Levitov involves a magnetic cactus, vortices in superconductors and the fabulous Farey numbers: www.ams.org/sam...