Zero to Infinity: A History of Numbers

Nature's Numbers - Patterns without People (1x6)

Uitzenddatum: Jan 01, 2007

Those who studied them found numbers captivating and soon realized that numerical structure, pattern, and beauty existed long before our ancestors named the numbers. In this lecture, our studies of pattern and structure in nature lead us to Fibonacci numbers and to connect them in turn to the golden ratio studied by the Pythagoreans centuries earlier.