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 used by
Leonardo Fibonacci to describe the
growth of a population of rabbits.
The
Fibonacci sequence is
related to many interesting phenomenons:
- Determine tuning at music instruments.
- In visual art.
- In nature in many biological settings like spirals of
shells, curve of waves, tree branches and many more.
Most interesting is the relation to the
Golden mean number – Phi. If you divide each number with the
number before it the outcome goes 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 base for so many things that
exist in our world.