This
Fibonacci sequence pendant
was designed by
Gary Meisner
who won David's jewelry design contest for April-May 2007. And here is
how Gary describes it: "
The first
numbers of the Fibonacci Series (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8) joined to
form a solid chain, with the 0 serving as the eye of the pendant."
The
Fibonacci numbers are a
sequence in which every number is the sum of the previous two.
The Fibonacci numbers were originally implemented by
Leonardo Fibonacci to portray the
population growth of rabbits.
The
Fibonacci sequence appears
in many interesting phenomenons, for example:
- Determine tuning at music instruments.
- In visual art.
- We encounter it in many natural and biological processes,
i.e. it shows up in the spirals of seashells, the curve of waves, the
growth of tree branches and many more natural phenomemnons.
It's most interesting relation is to the
Golden mean number : Phi. If you
divide each number in the series with the number preceding it, the
products gets closer and closer to Phi (1.618…):
1/1=1
2/1=2
3/2=1.5
5/3=1.66666
8/5=1.6
13/8=1.625
21/13=1.615384
And so on…
The
Fibonacci sequence is the mathematical basis for so many occurences
that exist in our world.