fibonacci sequence or spiral illustrated in nature

At the end of the 2nd month the female produces a new pair, so now there are now 2 pairs of rabbits in the field.At the end of the 1st month, they mate, but there is still one only 1 pair.The puzzle posed by Fibonacci was the following…įibonacci’s Rabbits How many pairs of rabbits will you obtain after one year? Now, suppose that our rabbits never die and that the female always produces one new pair (one male and one female) every month from the second month on. Rabbits can mate at the age of one month, so that at the end of its second month a female can produce another pair of rabbits.

Suppose a newly-born pair of rabbits, one male and one female, are placed in a field. The original problem investigated by Fibonacci in 1202 was about how fast rabbits could breed given ideal circumstances. According to Tobias Dantzig, his father was “a lowly shipping clerk nicknamed ‘Bonaccio’, which, in the idiom of the time, meant a ‘simpleton’.” Which made ‘Fibonacci,’ the ‘son of a simpleton’… This couldn’t have been further from the truth. From sunflowers to sea shells, the same recurrent mathematical pattern can be observed in Nature, again, and again, and again…įibonacci “Leonardo of Pisa” was an Italian mathematician who lived in the Middle Ages. The Fibonacci numbers are applicable to the growth of every living thing: a single cell, a grain of wheat, a hive of bees, all of mankind.

From the leaf arrangement in plants, to the pattern of the petals of a flower, the bracts of a pine cone, or the scales of a pineapple.

Fibonacci sequence or spiral illustrated in nature