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Mathematics

Is the study of the relationships among numbers, quantities, and shapes.

Mathematics

Includes arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, geometry, statistics, and calculus.

Mathematics

Nurtures human characteristics like power of creativity, reasoning, critical thinking, spatial thinking and others.

mathematics

helps organize patterns and regularities in the world.

mathematics

predict the behavior of nature and phenomena in the world.

patterns

in nature are visible regularities found in the natural world. These patterns persist in different contexts and can be modelled mathematically. Natural patterns may consist of spirals, symmetries, mosaics, stripes, spots, etc.

Tesselations

The tiling of a plane using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps.

Ernest Haeckel

german biologist who painted hundreds of marine organisms to emphasize their symmetry.

D’arcy thompson

scottish biologist who pioneered the study of growth patterns in both plants and animals, showing that simple equations could explain spiral growth.

Alan turing

british mathematician who predicted mechanism of morphogenesis which give rise to patterns of spots and stripes.

Aristid lidenmayer and Benoit maldenbrot

hungarian biologist and french american mathematican showed showed how the mathematics of fractals could create plant growth patterns.

gary smith

adopts eight patterns in his landscape work, namely: scattered, fractured, mosaic, naturalistic drift, serpentine, spiral, radial and dendritic.

leonardo pisano bigollo

LIVED BETWEEN 1170 AND 1250

IN ITALY. His nickname, "fibonacci" roughly means "Son of Bonacci"

Leonardo pisano bigollo

• He also helped spread Hindu Arabic numerals through
  Europe in place of Roman Numerals,

fibonacci day

what event is in november 23?

fractal patterns

Patterns that build into a simple repetitive shapes that are reduced in size every time they are repeated.

golden spiral

is a logarithmic spiral whose growth factor is phi (uppercase P, lowercase o or 4), the golden ratio. That is, a golden spiral gets wider (or further from its origin) by a factor of @ for every quarter turn it makes.

golden ratio

is a mathematical ratio. It is commonly found in nature, and when used in a design, it fosters organic and natural-looking compositions that are aesthetically pleasing to the eye.