Full name: Wild Fibonacci: Nature's Secret Code Revealed

Author: Joy N. Hulme Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Mathematics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781582461540 9781582463247 1582461546 1582463247

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34. . . Look carefully. Do you see the pattern? Each number above is the sum of the two numbers before it. Though most of us are unfamiliar with it, this numerical series, called the Fibonacci sequence, is part of a code that can be found everywhere in nature. Count the petals on a flower or the peas in a peapod. The numbers are all part of the Fibonacci sequence. In Wild Fibonacci, readers will discover this mysterious code in a special shape called an equiangular spiral. Why so special? It mysteriously appears in the natural world: a sundial shell curves to fit the spiral. So does a parrot's beak. . . a hawk's talon. . . a ram's horn. . . even our own human teeth! Joy Hulme provides a clear and accessible introduction to the Fibonacci sequence and its presence in the animal world. Similar books: Anno's Magic Seeds by Mitsumasa Anno Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens by Cindy Neuschwander What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? by Julie Ellis The Warlord's Puzzle by Virginia Pilegard The King's Commissioners by Aileen Friedman Mathematics by Keith Devlin Anno's Math Games by Mitsumasa Anno The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat by Theoni Pappas A Course of Pure Mathematics by G. H. Hardy Meta Math! by Gregory Chaitin Mathematics and the Search for Knowledge by Morris Kline Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis by Dan Rockmore Wonders of Numbers by Clifford A. Pickover A Concrete Approach to Mathematical Modelling by Mike Mesterton-Gibbons Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula by Paul J. Nahin A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Being Mortal by Atul Gawande What If? by Randall Munroe Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot