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Thr golden angle is a mathematical concept, closely related to the golden ratio and Fibonacci numbers. Where can you find it and how is it formed?
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Ian Stewart gave the 1997 Christmas Lectures “The Magical Maze” about hows how maths governs almost every aspect of our lives, ranging from our birthdays to American game shows, calling in at panthers, petals, and the logic of chaos.
In his first lecture, he looks at how mathematics binds everything in our universe together.
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Zoinks! We are late with this video, it was supposed to go out on Friday but here we are. We blame the heat wave for… err… addling our fingers, that's right. So without further ado, let us introduce our third archive series going out – 1997 Ian Stewart Christmas Lectures "The Magical Maze".
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So The God exist?
There's a similar video on Numberphile, but I really prefer this one. 90s, good old 90s…
Sometimes you just don't need the audience
javascript version of the sunflower generator http://output.jsbin.com/hezidi (you can edit the code to change the angle.)
So the proof is that Golden Angle is irrational number? Wouldn't other irrational angles also work? Or is it somehow the best one?
Marcus didn’t know what the hell was going on.
That oaf was a very unfortunate choice.
I could have spared the racist joke about Italians at the beginning, quite unnecessary, obviously
In one fifth of the time he could have told the true story of the Lambdoma. He makes the magic and doesn't faintly touch the important.
Don't you hate it when someone asks for your help or asks you to do something and then they end up doing it without giving you a chance?
Wrong question and line of reasoning. Any angle that is an irrational number time pi radians will not create a repeating number of spokes, whereas any that is rational will. There is more going on than just that.
What timing. Just saw Ian at the Discworld Convention this weekend. 🙂
Three words: nice nice nice.
Nice to know that this man still lives. A plenty of these lecturers have passed
Fibonacci seekers: If the measurement is close… It is good enough.
Kappa