Books that decode the invisible systems behind everyday life, from data and design to nature and judgment, reshape how we see ...

His beautiful coffee table book, Patterns in Nature: Why The Natural World Looks The Way It Does (University of Chicago Press, 2017), takes a fascinating and in-depth look into why and how natural ...

In nature, fractal patterns aren’t just aesthetically pleasing, they’re also often related to function. For example, branching enables trees to transport fluid, harvest light and maintain ...

2. The Golden Ratio Concept: The ratio 1.618 appears in art, nature, and human faces. Relevance for self-understanding: In nature, math, and in our own lives, some patterns bring a sense of harmony.

A quantum version of a fractal pattern, known as "Hofstadter's butterfly," has long been predicted, but the new study marks the first time it has been directly observed experimentally in a real ...

Sunflowers are another famous example of Fibonacci at work in nature. Particularly, the arrangement of seedheads on sunflowers often takes on Fibonacci numbers. For example, if 34 seed rows curve ...

In nature, patterns of chemical interactions between two different substances are believed to govern the designs our eyes see—for example, a zebra’s stripes.

Home Sci-Tech Science The 400 million-year-old fossil changing our understanding of mathematical patterns in nature Premium ...

Examples of living plants with Fibonacci spirals. From left to right: spirals in leaves of a monkey puzzle trees, a pine cone and in the flower of a seaside daisy. Sandy Hetherington, Author provided ...