NARRATI0N OF SERIES, SEQUENCE AND IT’S

CONNECTION IN NATURE
In mathematics, a sequence is an enumerated collection of objects in which repetitions are
allowed and order matters. Like a set, it contains members (also called elements, or terms). The
number of elements (possibly infinite) is called the length of the sequence. Unlike a set, the
same elements can appear multiple times at different positions in a sequence, and unlike a set,
the order does matter. Formally, a sequence can be defined as a function whose domain is
either the set of the natural numbers (for infinite sequences), or the set of the first n natural
numbers (for a sequence of finite length n). For example, (M, A, R, Y) is a sequence of letters
with the letter 'M' first and 'Y' last. This sequence differs from (A, R, M, Y). Also, the sequence
(1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8), which contains the number 1 at two different positions, is a valid sequence.
Sequences can be finite, as in these examples, or infinite, such as the sequence of all even
positive integers (2, 4, 6, ...). In mathematics, a series is, roughly speaking, a description of the
operation of adding infinitely many quantities, one after the other, to a given starting quantity.
[1] The study of series is a major part of calculus and its generalization, mathematical analysis.
Series are used in most areas of mathematics, even for studying finite structures (such as in
combinatorics) through generating functions. In addition to their ubiquity in mathematics,
infinite series are also widely used in other quantitative disciplines such as physics, computer
science, statistics and finance. For a long time, the idea that such a potentially infinite
summation could produce a finite result was considered paradoxical. This paradox was resolved
using the concept of a limit during the 17th century. Zeno's paradox of Achilles and the tortoise
illustrates this counterintuitive property of infinite sums: Achilles runs after a tortoise, but when
he reaches the position of the tortoise at the beginning of the race, the tortoise has reached a
second position; when he reaches this second position, the tortoise is at a third position, and so
on. Zeno concluded that Achilles could never reach the tortoise, and thus that movement does
not exist. Zeno divided the race into infinitely many sub-races, each requiring a finite amount of
time, so that the total time for Achilles to catch the tortoise is given by a series. The resolution
of the paradox is that, although the series has an infinite number of terms, it has a finite sum,
which gives the time necessary for Achilles to catch up with the tortoise. The numbers of
nature: the Fibonacci sequence. The Fibonacci Sequence has always attracted the attention of
people since, as well as having special mathematical properties, other numbers so ubiquitous as
those of Fibonacci do not exist anywhere else in mathematics: they appear in geometry,
algebra, number theory, in many other fields of mathematics and even in nature!