News tagged with fibonacci sequence
13 year old researcher finds tree inspired solar collection more efficient
(PhysOrg.com) -- Aidan Dwyer, a 13 year old Junior High School student from New York state, noticed that the phyllotaxy of the leaves on trees he was observing while hiking through the Catskill Mountains, ...
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Aug 22, 2011 |
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Magnetic Cactus Experimentally Demonstrates Mathematical Plant Patterns
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of humanity’s earliest mathematical inquiries might have involved the geometric patterns in plants. The arrangement of leaves on a branch, seeds in a sunflower, and spines on a cactus ...
May 20, 2009 |
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'Touch' TV series uses numbers to connect people
Think about all of the different people that you come in contact with on any given day: family, friends, coworkers and strangers going about their lives. The fateful hijacking of Flight 93 on 9/11 showed how ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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A trillion triangles: New computer methods reveal secrets of ancient math problem
Mathematicians from North America, Europe, Australia, and South America have resolved the first one trillion cases of an ancient mathematics problem. The advance was made possible by a clever technique for ...
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Fibonacci sequence fronts new nanoscience building at Bristol University
A famous mathematical pattern has inspired the stunning curved sail façade of Bristol University’s new £11 million Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information.
Jun 05, 2008 |
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Scientists find clues to the formation of Fibonacci spirals in nature
While the aesthetics and symmetry of Fibonacci spiral patterns has often attracted scientists, a mathematical or physical explanation for their common occurrence in nature is yet to be discovered. Recently, ...
May 01, 2007 |
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Of Friction and 'The Da Vinci Code'
The Da Vinci Code, the best selling novel and soon-to-be-blockbuster film, may also be linked some day to the solving of a scientific mystery as old as Leonardo Da Vinci himself — friction. A collaboration of sci ...
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Aug 25, 2005 |
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Fibonacci series on microstructures
It is a big challenge for materials scientists to produce highly ordered micro- and nanostructures in a designed pattern with uniform size and shape. By controlling the geometry and the stress upon cooling, CAS researchers ...
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Aug 18, 2005 |
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