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➢ Metaphors, analogies, and
storytelling result in understanding
MATHEMATICS IN NATURE
➢ Changing perspective is
fundamental for humans
Math in Understanding the World (Roger ➢ The imagination and changing
Antonsen) perspective are equal to empathy
➢ Finding Patterns

Mathematics is a Sense (Eddie Woo)

➢ It is a sense just like sight and touch.
It's a sense that allows us to
perceive realities that would be
otherwise intangible to us
➢ Mathematics is our sense for
patterns, relationships, and logical
connections
➢ Representing Patterns with ➢ River delta
Language ➢ Geometry is the math of shapes
➢ Fractals is a reference to the broken
and shattered shapes
➢ Rotational symmetry (Spiral)
➢ Using 137.5 degrees can create a
beautiful pattern
➢ Golden Ratio
○ 137.5 degrees
○ A mathematical reality that,
like fractals, you can find
everywhere

Nature by Numbers

Mathematics in your DNA

➢ Unveiling
➢ Secrets of Geometric Code
➢ Geometric Code connecting us with
➢ Making assumptions and playing the Divine
around with these assumptions and
just seeing what happens
➢ Doing cool stuff
➢ Changing perspective
➢ Math can be viewed from different
perspectives because it can have
different representations
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THIS IS YOU IN ARCHITECTURE

WIND ROSE

IN PHYSICS

IN THE COSMOS

IN NATURE

➢ Cycles are everywhere in the

Universe
➢ Whirling around the Middle

➢ Think Deeply
➢ Organize your thinking
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➢ Reflect ➢ GOLDEN RATIO

➢ Seeking a type of knowledge that

reminds us of knowledge that has no
beginning or end

➢ Fractal Braching
➢ Gemetrci Codel
➢ Universe Code
➢ Structures of the Universe

➢ What is inside of you is also outside

of you
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➢ MIDDLE = NAVEL
PATTERNS IN NATURE

TYPES OF PATTERNS IN NATURE

1. SYMMETRY
➢ Is pervasive in living things
➢ Animals mainly have bilateral or
mirror symmetry or strip pattern
➢ Leaves of plants and some flowers
such as Orchids
➢ Plants often have radial or rotational
symmetry
➢ Examples
○ Sea Anemones
○ Starfish (radial)
○ Sea lilies
○ Echinoderms
➢ DNA has Golden Ratio ○ Sea urchins
○ Human face (bilateral)
○ Snakes
○ Honeycomb (wallpaper)

➢ Heart of Mathematics aka CARDOID 2. FRACTALS

➢ Earth’s Ratio aka DIVINE RATIO ➢ A fractal is a never-ending pattern.
Fractals are infinitely complex
patterns that are self-similar across
different scales. They are created by
repeating a simple process over and
over in an ongoing feedback loop. If
you divide a fractal pattern into parts
you get a nearly identical
reduced-size copy of the whole.
➢ Examples
○ Ferns
○ Corals
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○ Trees
○ River networks
○ Animal coloration 4. TESSELLATIONS
○ Mountains ➢ Patterns formed by repeating tiles all
○ Snow flakes over a flat surface
○ Broccoli ➢ Common in art and design
➢ Example
○ Honeycomb
○ Crystals
○ Snake fruits
○ Tessellated pavement of a
rare rock formation

3. SPIRALS
➢ Such arrangements in mollusks,
sunflower seed heads, or structure
of a pineapple fruit are called spirals.
Some of these spirals can be
FIBONACCI SEQUENCE AND THE
generated mathematically from
GOLDEN RATIO
Fibonacci ratios (sequence)
➢ Look at your fingers closely. If you
➢ Examples
measure the length of the longest
○ When leaves alternate up a
finger bone, and then the length of
stem, one rotation of the
the finger next to it, and then divide
spiral touches two leaves, so
the longer length by the shorter one,
the pattern or ratio is a
you should get a number close to
Fibonacci ratio
1.168.
○ Hazel – ratio is ⅓
➢ All parts of the human body are
○ Apricot – ratio is ⅖
proportional to this number. In fact, if
○ Pear – ratio is ⅜
your face is symmetric and follows
○ Almond – ratio is 5/13
this ratio, you are often said to be of
exquisite beauty.
➢ Different cultures and civilizations
have different standards and criteria
concerning the ideal of a woman's
beauty. According to the Golden
Ratio, beauty is NOT declared by
one specific race, culture, or era
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➢ A golden rectangle is simply a MAKES A SPIRAL
rectangle with dimensions that When we make squares with those widths,
reflect the Golden Ratio. we get a nice spiral:
➢ Leonardo Da Vinci is known for his
artistic representation using aspects
of the Golden Ratio.
➢ The number of petals on a flower is
often one of the Fibonacci numbers:
3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, or 55
➢ The Golden Ratio is also a
logarithmic spiral. For every
90-degree turn, the radius of the
spiral grows by a factor of the phi. Do you see how the squares fit neatly
together?
For example, 5 and 8 make 13, 8 and 13
make 21, and so on.
FIBONACCI SEQUENCE AND THE
GOLDEN RATIO

FIBONACCI SEQUENCE
The Fibonacci Sequence is the series of
numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ...

The next number is found by adding up the

two numbers before it:

● the 2 is found by adding the two

numbers before it (1+1),
This spiral is found in nature!
● the 3 is found by adding the two
numbers before it (1+2),
● the 5 is (2+3),
THE RULE
● and so on!
➢ The Fibonacci Sequence can be
written as a RULE
Example: the next number in the sequence
above is 21+34 = 55
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USING THE GOLDEN RATIO TO

CALCULATE FIBONACCI NUMBERS

GOLDEN RATIO
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SOME INTERESTING THINGS
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GOLDEN RATIO
TERMS BELOW ZERO ➢ The golden ratio (symbol is the
Greek letter "phi" shown at left)
is a special number approximately
equal to 1.618
➢ It appears many times in geometry,
art, architecture and other areas.
➢ The Golden Ratio is also sometimes
called the golden section, golden
mean, golden number, divine
proportion, divine section, and
golden proportion

THE IDEA BEHIND IT

HISTORY
➢ Fibonacci was not the first to know
about the sequence, it was known in
India hundreds of years before

ABOUT FIBONACCI THE MAN

➢ His real name was Leonardo Pisano
Bogollo, and he lived between 1170
and 1250 in Italy.
➢ "Fibonacci" was his nickname, which
roughly means "Son of Bonacci".
➢ As well as being famous for the
Fibonacci Sequence, he helped
spread Hindu-Arabic Numerals (like
our present numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9) through Europe in place of
Roman Numerals (I, II, III, IV, V, etc).
That has saved us all a lot of trouble!
Thank you, Leonardo.

FIBONACCI DAY
➢ Fibonacci Day is November 23rd, as
it has the digits "1, 1, 2, 3" which is
part of the sequence
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BEAUTY

THE ACTUAL VALUE

CALCULATING IT

FORMULA

POWER EXPONENTS
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DRAWING IT THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE

A QUICK WAY TO CALCULATE

THE MOST IRRATIONAL

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PENTAGRAM KEPLER TRIANGLE

FOOTNOTES FOR THE KEEN

SOLVING USING THE QUADRATIC

FORMULA