The Golden ratio

The Golden ratio and Fibonacci numbers

The Golden Ratio is a captivating journey through art and architecture, botany and biology, physics and mathematics.

Pythagor believed that this proportion revealed the hand of God .

The Fibonacci sequence is a set of numbers that starts with a one or a zero, followed by a one, and proceeds based on the rule that each number (called a Fibonacci number) is equal to the sum of the preceding two numbers.

The Fibonacci sequence is named for Leonardo Pisano (also known as Leonardo Pisano or Fibonacci ), an Italian mathematician who lived from 1170 - 1250. Fibonacci used the arithmetic series to illustrate a problem based on a pair of breeding rabbits:

"How many pairs of rabbits will be produced in a year, beginning with a single pair, if in every month each pair bears a new pair which becomes productive from the second month on?" The result can be expressed numerically as: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 ...

Fibonacci numbers are of interest to biologists and physicists because they are frequently observed in various natural objects and phenomena. The branching patterns in trees and leaves, for example, and the distribution of seeds in a raspberry are based on Fibonacci numbers.