Chapter 1 Flashcards
Study of the relationship among numbers, quantities, and shape
Mathematics
Are visible regularities found in the natural world
Patterns in nature
Natural patterns consist of…
Spiral
Symmetries
Mosaic
Stripes
Dots
Greek philosophers that studied patterns
Plato
Pythagoras
Empedocles
Belgian physicist
Joseph Plateau
German biologists and artist
Ernst Haeckel
Scottish biologist
D’Arcy Thompson
British mathematician
Alan Turing
Hungarian biologist
Aristid Lindenmayer
French-American mathematician
Benoit Mandelbrot
Never ending pattern
Fractals
Adopts eight patterns in his landscape work
W. Gary Smith
The eight patterns of W. Gary Smith
Scattered
Fractured
Mosaic
Naturalistic drift
Serpentine
Spiral
Radial
Dendritic
Was nicknamed “Fibonacci” because of his father
Leonardo Pisano Bogollo
Helped spread Hindu Arabic numerical
Guglielmo bonacci