Nature of Mathematics

Patterns & Patterns

What is Mathematics?
• study of pattern & structure. mathematics is fundamental to the physical &
biological sciences, engineering & technology , to economics & increasingly to
the social sciences.
• useful way to think about nature & our world.
• a tool to quantify, organize & control our world, predict phenomena & make life
easier for us.
• many patterns & occurrences exists in nature, in our world, in our life. mathematics
helps make sense of these patterns & occurrences.

What role does Mathematics play in our world?

• helps organize patterns & regularities in our world.
• helps predict the behavior of nature & phenomena in the world.
• helps control nature & occurrences in the world for our own ends.
• has numerous applications in the world making it indispendable.

Patterns & Numbers in Nature & the world

Patterns in nature are visible regularities of form found in the natural world and can
also be seen in the universe.

Nature patterns which are not just to be admired, they are vital clues to the rules that
govern natural processes.

PATTERN is defined as:

• regular
• repeated
• recurring forms or designs
• identify relationships
• find logical connections to form generalizations

Examples of patterns?
1. Can be observed in stars which circles across the sky.
2. Weather season cycle each year. Snowflakes contains sixfold symmetry.
3. Patterns can be seen in fish patterns.
4. Animals likes zebras, tigers, cats & snakes, that are covered in pattern of blotches.
5. Natural patterns like the intricate waves across the ocean. Sand dunes on deserts;
formation of typhoon; water drop with ripple

FIBONACCI SEQUENCE
• Leonardo Pisano Bigollo. (1170 - 1250, Italy.)
• "Fibonacci" was his nickname, which roughly means "son of Bonacci”
• He also helped spread Hindu- Arabic Numerals.
• Fibonacci number: an integer in the infinite sequence 1,1, 2, 3,5, 8,13,... of which two
terms are 1 and 1 each succeeding...
• Displays unique mathematical properties at make it useful in fields as diverse as
astronomy (distances between planets & the sun , and the shape of galactic
spirals) , botany (growth patterns of plants & trees) and financial markets (price
movements of securities)

The Fibonacci sequence can be written as a "Rule"

• First, the terms are numbered from 0 onwards like this:

• So term number 6 is called ✗ 6 (which equals 8)

• Simple Rule: Add the last two terms to get the next.

Nature of Mathematics: The Golden Ratio

• The golden ratio can be expressed as the ratio between two numbers.

• When we take any two successive

come after the other) Fibonacci
Numbers, their ratio is very close to the
Golden Ratio which is approximately 1.
618034...
• In fact, the bigger the pair of Fibonacci Numbers, the closer
the approximation.
• The Golden Ratio is also sometimes called the golden section,
golden mealy golden number, divine proportion, divine
section & golden proportion.

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Fibonacci Sequence (Example)

* If Fib 1=1, Fib 2=7 , Fib 3=2, Fib 4=3;

what is: Answer: solution:

31 To find the next value in

a.) Fib 9?
 → 31 To find the next value in
a.) Fib 9?
55 the sequence, we only have
b.) Fib10? →
to add the two previous
C.) Fib 73? -
values of the value that
we are looking for.