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Is Mathematics Beautiful? If It Is, Is It Because God Is A Mathematician? 1 Tex When the famous mathematician Gauss was a child, his teacher, trying to keep him busy, set him on the task of finding the sum of the whole numbers 1 to 100.

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Is Mathematics Beautiful?

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If It Is,

Is It Because God Is A Mathematician?

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When the famous mathematician Gauss was a child, his teacher, trying to keep him busy, set him on the task

  • f finding the sum of the whole numbers 1 to 100.

His teacher was shocked when he completed the problem in just a few seconds. 1 + 2 + 3... + 50 50 x 101 = 5050 100 + 99 + 98 ...+ 51

101 + 101 + 101 + 101

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Paul Erdos

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Paul Dirac Dirac’s Equation

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Euler’s Identity

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SOME BEAUTY FROM NUMBER THEORY

  • What are the next 3 terms of the Fibonacci Sequence?

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, __ , __ , __ , ...

13 21

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  • Who was Fibonacci?

Leonardo Pisano (Leonardo of Pisa) (right), better known as Fibonacci, was an Italian mathematician who is most famous for his Fibonacci Sequence and for popularizing the Hindu-Arabic numeral system in Europe. Fibonacci

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The Fibonacci Sequence in Nature- Humans(cm)

1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55

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The Fibonacci Sequence in Nature- Sunflowers

1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55

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1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55

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1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55

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1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55

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The Fibonacci Sequence in Nature- Pine Cones

1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55

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The Fibonacci Sequence in Nature- Flower Petals

1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89

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55?

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The Fibonacci Sequence in Nature- Trees & Bees

1 1 2 3 5

Female Bees can produce with or without a male!

Funfertilized Male Ffertilized by male Female

Ed 1 Parent 2 Grandparents(Gps) 3 greatGps (gGps) 5 ggGps

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The Fibonacci Sequence/Spiral in Nature- Shells

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The Fibonacci Spiral in Nature

Aerial View of a Hurricane Telescopic View of a Galaxy

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The Fibonacci Spiral in Nature- Where You Least Expect It!

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The Fibonacci Spiral in Life /Living Things

Double Helix DNA Spiral Proboscis of a Sap-Feeding Butterfly

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The Fibonacci Spiral in Art

1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,...

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SOME BEAUTY FROM GEOMETRY

A GOLDEN RECTANGLE IS A SPECIAL, AESTHETICALLY PLEASING,

RECTANGLE IN WHICH THE LENGTH L DIVIDED BY THE WIDTH W IS APPROXIMATELY 1.618.

GOLDEN RECTANGLE

W L L / W = ≈ 1.618

Phi (Golden ratio)

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CONSTRUCTING A GOLDEN RECTANGLE

c = (a/2) + a = 5a /4 c = (√5 a)/2

2 2 2 2

Length = a/2 + (√5 a)/2 = a(√5 + 1)/2 ≈ 1.618a Length / Width = 1.618a/a ≈ 1.618 = Golden Ratio

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The GOLDEN RATIO IN LIFE

The ratio of the Major groove to the Minor groove in the DNA Double Helix Spiral is the Golden Ratio

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THE GOLDEN RATIO IN THE HUMAN BODY HEIGHT/ HEIGHT OF NAVEL

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“Beauty is in the Phi of the beholder.”

Florence Colgate, England Nose to Chin/Lips to Chin Bottom of Nose to Top of Lips/Top of lips to bottom

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Eyes to lip center/Lips to Chin Height of head/Width of Head The above, and at least 16

  • thers. All are the Golden

Ratio (Phi) ≈ 1.618

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More About “God’s Fingerprint” in the Human Body

From measurement of 5000 Uteruses per year by ultrasound, Dr Jasper Verguts, a Gynecological Specialist at the University Hospital Lueven in Belgium looked at the ratio of uterus length to width (uterus ratio) and found: For newborn girls, the uterus ratio is about 2 In old age, the uterus ratio shrinks to 1.46 In the most fertile time of a woman’s life (Between ages 16 and 20) the uterus ratio is 1.6, strikingly close to the Golden Ratio!

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THE GOLDEN RATIO IN THE GREAT PYRAMID

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THE GOLDEN RATIO IN ANCIENT BUILDINGS

The Taj Mahal, India The Parthenon, Greece

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THE GOLDEN RATIO IN MODERN BUILDINGS

The CN Bulding in Toronto.The ratio

  • f its height (553 m) to the height of

it’s observation tower is 1.618 The UN Building in NYC. It’s width compared to the height

  • f every 10 floors is 1.618
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THE GOLDEN RATIO IN VIOLIN CONSTRUCTION

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Applications in Music

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PURSUING THE BEAUTY FURTHER- AN AMAZING RELATIONSHIP!

The Golden Ratio is “Married to” the Fibonacci Sequence!

1 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 5 , 8 , 13 , 21, 34

A term of the Fibonacci Sequence, say 21, divided by the term before it, 13, is the Golden Ratio, approx 1.618, as it’s limiting value.

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SOME BEAUTY FROM TOPOLOGY

Topology is the area of mathematics dealing with properties of space that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, crumpling, and bending, but not tearing or gluing.

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SOME BEAUTY FROM TOPOLOGY

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IS IT POSSIBLE TO TAKE OFF YOUR VEST WITHOUT TAKING OFF YOUR COAT? TOPOLOGISTS KNOW!

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“Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe” “If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice

  • f Plato and start with

mathematics” Galileo Galilei

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