Learn about the optical rotatum, a newfound structure of light that exhibits a spiral pattern linked with various parts of ...

Sunflowers have two flower types: disc and ray flowers. The spiral pattern one sees in the disc flowers is an example of a Fibonacci series and a beautiful math lesson for us all. There are ...

and the number of spiral floret formations visible in many sunflowers, spiraled scales on a pine cone and segments on the surface of a pineapple have been found to match Fibonacci numbers.

The spirals on sunflower heads often conform to a Fibonacci number (see notes), and Turing was one of a number of scientists who tried to explain ‘Fibonacci phyllotaxis’, but he died before the work ...

A large sunflower might even have 89 spirals in one direction, and 144 in the other. Remarkably enough, all of these numbers fit the famous Fibonacci sequence — obtained by adding the two ...

The Fibonacci sequence even plays a role in the subtle spirals you can see in the seed head of a sunflower. This is because of something known as the Golden Ratio, the Golden Section or the Greek ...