Day 08: Heart of Mathematics
- Too bad you missed Tom Hull talking
Origami! You could have made a butterfly bomb!
- Last time: Fibonacci numbers.
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Our mission today: Continue
to discuss section 2.2, Fibonacci numbers, but looking at various
quantities constructed from the Fibonacci numbers.
- Fibonacci Numbers and Nature:
- A nice quote: "The story of Fibonacci numbers is a story of
pattern." P. 56.
- Spirals
- Other cones
- The Golden Ratio (using the "Fibonacci Formula" and algebra)
- II.4: Digging up Fibonacci roots
- II.5: Tribonacci
- Creating natural numbers as sums of Fibonacci numbers (in
preparation for Fibonacci Nim): try I.11
- Assignment 1 will be due on Friday,
9/13.
- Next time: Fibonacci Nim!
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