Dwane Almeida12ECE041

Mathematics In NatureMathematics has its different forms in nature. Symmetry, shapes, lines, spheres are such forms. The discovery of “Pi” was deduced from nature itself. First devised (inaccurately) by the Egyptians and Babylonians, the infinite decimal places of pi (approximately 3.1415926...) have been calculated to billions of decimal places. Another observation of this form of mathematics in nature are fractals. A fractal is a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry. Fractals are seen in trees, ferns and the famous Koch snowflake.

One more form is the fibonnaci series. Leonardo Fibonacci was a well-travelled Italian who introduced the concept of zero and the Hindu-Arabic numeral system to Europe in 1200AD. He also described the Fibonacci sequence of numbers using an idealised breeding population of rabbits. Each rabbit pair produces another pair every month, taking one month first to mature, and giving the sequence 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,... Each number in the sequence is the sum of the previous two.