When our oldest was in first grade he was selected for a science pull out class. He came from the first session disgusted, “She didn’t even know what a Fibonacci number is!” The teacher told us the same story, amazed that he was looking for the Fibonacci pattern on the sea shell.
Thank you Jonathan Park cds! Kids learned a great deal while being entertained.
Beaumarchais(Marriage of Figaro, Barber of Seville) put his life saving in the cataloging and publishing of Voltaire's manuscripts and documents. Voltaire gave his blessing.
When finished(after the death of Voltaire), Beaumarchais was ask to summarize the thousands of documents in a few words. I think you know what he said...."I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
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What we realize now as math and physics were important too - to God I think - in creating the universe.
My first engineering boss and VP of engineering was a member of some Fibonacci society and had a stack of their quarterlies around. I was overwhelmed by work all day and school at night, so never had the spare brain cells to bother looking into the magazines.
Would like to see a few of those now, though probably very dense reading.
Fibonacci did not, however, discover the sequence – it was recorded in Sanskrit at least as far back as 200 BC. Nor does the sequence explain anything about artistic beauty via the so-called ‘golden section’, as Keith Devlin reminds us in his new book Finding Fibonacci>>>>>>>>>>>
The Golden Mean allegedly debunked by an Arabic touch stone?
Fibonacci sequence describes far to many shapes in nature. NO DEBUNK!
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So the journalist gets the fibonacci sequence wrong... Is it any wonder math is dead...
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If you want computational efficiency, you use binary bits to represent numerical values. Arabic numerals are just a crutch for humans. Besides, they’re Arabic.
Interesting article... now I need to see if I can get info on him at the library.
Long Story: Took my mother and Mother-in-law to Italy before they both died a few years ago. They were both 90 at the time. Mother-in-law was Italian and always wanted to go. Mom went along for company. Wife stayed home as she called it her vacation. I worked off past sins.
Without wife I gazed at the passing Italian girls who were very attractive and had a long striding walk style I like. Mom noticed me watching and commented on one particularly beautiful girl and remarked that she was wearing a Fibonaci plaid jacket. I asked what that was.
She scoffed at my ignorance, so when I went home I read “The Man of Numbers”. She wove a duplicate to the girls jacket. Made her own cloth according to the series which is what a Fibonaci plaid is.
I still have the jacket
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