November 5, 2017
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Comments Off on 🌻 The Fractal Nature Of Reality 🍀
I came out of this lecture completely mind blown at our world and what is produces naturally, we truly live in an extraordinary reality. Today we learnt about the Fibonacci sequence (the golden spiral) together with Phi (the golden ratio). In 1509 there was an Italian mathematician called Luna Pacioli who published Divina Proportione, which […] Continue reading
November 2, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths, Creative? No Way! 🎨
Up until this point in my education I’ve always thought of maths as a subject full of equations, difficult strategies and complicated rules. Especially in higher maths at school is was a constant routine of go to class, be taught a new subject for half the lesson with vigorous note taking and then the second […] Continue reading
December 5, 2015
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Comments Off on Beautiful Maths – Mathematics is beauty, literally
During the course of the Discovering Mathematics module, I have grown to have a more active awareness and somewhat alertness about the Golden Ratio… 1.61803398875 It appears as a number we may dismiss, but its essence is something astonishing and that is, the Golden Ratio is a measurement buildings and other objects use to be […] Continue reading
December 4, 2015
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Comments Off on Beautiful Mathematics – an Outdoor Perspective
When we think of mathematics, we often think numbers, formulas, data handling and a whole host of other mathematical concepts. However, have you ever just looked around you whilst out in the outdoors and thought ‘maths is beautiful?” I guess its a thought that never springs to mind. However, mathematics is actually in everything we […] Continue reading
