The Fibonacci Sequence in God’s Creation（斐波那契序列在神的创造）.pdf

The Fibonacci Sequence in God’s Creation © 1996 by James Nickel fascinating numerical property found in Gods creation is called the Fibonacci sequence. It was popularized Aby Leonardo of Pisa in the thirteenth century. The sequence looks as follows: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, Note that the third term is the sum of the first two, the fourth the sum of the second and third, and so on. These numbers are so common to creation that in 1963, The Fibonacci Quarterly began to be published by an or- ganization called “The Fibonacci Association.” The sole purpose of this publication is to document the occur- rence of this sequence in nature! The Fibonacci numbers occur repeatedly in the petal arrangement of flowers. For example, two petals are found on the enchanters nightshade, three on the Trilium, Lily, and Iris, five on the Wild Geranium, Spring Beauty, and Yellow Violet, eight on the Lesser Celandine, Sticktight, and Delphinium, thirteen on the Corn Marigold, Mayweed, and Ragwort, twenty-one on the Chicory, Aster, and Helenium, thirty-four on the Plantain, Ox-eye Daisy, and Pyrethrum, fifty-five on the Field Daisy, Helenium, Michaelmas, and Daisy, and eighty-nine on the Michaelmas and Daisy.1 “I have come to believe that all the biological and physical phenomena of the universe have mathematical structure; humankind has only to discover them.”2 “Mathematics and science are activities of creative and imaginative human beings, not of computers or other machines. The creativity and imagination must be controlled by discipline and self-criticism, but that is equally true of other kinds of creative activity such as the writing of poetry. And because it is a creative and imaginative activity, there are satisfactions in engaging