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    The document discusses the beauty and prevalence of mathematics in nature. It provides examples of patterns found in nature that follow mathematical structures, such as fractals seen in snowflakes, the Fibonacci sequence found in sunflowers and shells, and hexagonal patterns in honeycombs. Mathematics allows humans to recognize, analyze, and exploit these patterns to better understand natural processes and phenomena in the world.

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    The Nature of

    Mathematics
    Beauty of Mathematics
     Mathematics is the science of patterns, and the
    nature exploits just about every pattern that there
    is.
     Providing tools that let scientists calculate what
    nature is doing,
     And providing new questions for the
    mathematicians to sort out to their own
    satisfaction.
     Patterns is a discernible regularity in the world or
    in a manmade design.
    Beauty of Mathematics
     Human are still learning to recognize new kinds of
    pattern - within the last thirty years has humanity
    become explicitly aware of the two types of
    pattern: fractals and chaos.
    Beauty of Mathematics
     Fractals - in mathematics, a geometric shape that
    is complex and detailed in structure at any level of
    magnification.
    ex. Snowflake
     Chaos - theory describing the complex and
    unpredictable motion or dynamics of systems that
    are sensitive to their initial conditions.
    ex. Electric circuit, electrical brain activity
    Mathematics in nature
     Human mind and culture have developed a
    formal system of thought for recognizing,
    classifying, and exploiting patterns now known
    as Mathematics.
     Using mathematics in organising and
    systematizing ideas about patterns, we’ve
    discovered a great secret: “nature's patterns are
    not just there to be admired, they are vital clues
    to the rules that govern natural processes”
    Mathematics in nature
     Four hundred years ago, the German astronomer
    Johannes Kepler wrote a small book, The Six-
    Cornered Snowflake.
     ‘snowflakes must be made by packing tiny
    identical units together’ (long before the theory that
    matter is made up of atoms)
     Kepler performed no experiments; His main
    evidence was the six-fold symmetry of snowflakes,
    which is a natural consequence of regular packing.
    The Snowflake
    Tiger’s stripe
    The honeycomb
     Why do the cells of a honeycomb have a
    hexagonal form?
     The shape turns out to be economical: much
    honey is enclosed by minimum beeswax.
    The Weather
    The Fibonacci Sequence
     A sequence of numbers in which each member is
    the sum of the two preceding numbers. For
    example
    0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21 and so forth.
    The Fibonacci Sequence
     the fibonacci sequence was invented by Leonardo
    Fibonacci
     The Golden Ratio
     The golden ratio is ϕ(phi) = 1.61803…..
     Taking the ratio of two successive numbers in the
    sequence will approach the golden ratio as you
    move deeper into the sequence
    0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55…..

    5/3= 1.67 8/5=1.6 13/8=1.625 34/21=


    1.619
    Fibonacci spiral
    Fibonacci sequence in nature
     The Sunflower
     shell
     Flower petals
     Ocean wave
     Galaxy
    Fibonacci in petals
    FLOWERS NUMBER OF
    PETALS
    Lilies 3
    Buttercups 5
    Delphiniums 8
    Marigolds 13
    Asters 21
    Daisies 34, 55, 89
    Fibonacci sequence in nature
    Fibonacci in art
     Leonardo da Vinci
    Painted “Mona Lisa”
    During renaissance
    With divine proportion
    Mathematics in universe
    Constellation
    Mathematics in universe
     Example of Constellation
    Thank you !

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