[Gutenberg 34237] • Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth

[Gutenberg 34237] • Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth
Authors
Unknown
Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Tags
english poetry -- collections , american poetry -- collections , children's poetry , science
ISBN
9789810232641
Date
1997-12-17T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.38 MB
Lang
en
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In this invaluable book, the basic mathematical properties of the golden ratio and its occurrence in the dimensions of two- and three-dimensional figures with fivefold symmetry are discussed. In addition, the generation of the Fibonacci series and generalized Fibonacci series and their relationship to the golden ratio are presented. These concepts are applied to algorithms for searching and function minimization. The Fibonacci sequence is viewed as a one-dimensional aperiodic, lattice and these ideas are extended to two- and three-dimensional Penrose tilings and the concept of incommensurate projections. The structural properties of aperiodic crystals and the growth of certain biological organisms are described in terms of Fibonacci sequences.