Fibonacci Numbers of Sunflower Seed Spirals

How to Count the Spirals The sunflower seed pattern used by the National Museum of Mathematics contains many spirals. If you count the spirals in a consistent manner, you will always find a Fibonacci number (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, …). Below are the three most natural ways to … Continue reading Fibonacci Numbers of Sunflower Seed Spirals