About This Video

Look around you. Underlying every aspect of the world is a language that we all know, though our use and expertise may vary. This language, mathematics, can be used to describe everything from the proliferation of waves through a medium to how many seeds will fit on a sunflower. The harder scientists look at the natural world, the more they find it can be described with mathematics.
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Pictured: A flower with petals arranged in the Fibonacci Sequence; Image courtesy of Damon Taylor; Recorded June 2011; Posted November 2011