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PASCAL TRIANGLE

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Mathematical Connections

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal was born at Clermont on June,19,1623. In 1653 Pascal invented the arithmetical triangle.Pascal`s arithmetical triangle is the basic number formula in nature. As a mathematician Pascal is best known in connection with his correspondence with Fermat in 1654. in which he laid down the principles of the theory of probabilities. He died in Paris on August 19, 1662...

Formulae for Fib(x-n) and Fib(x+2n)

It is possible to derive operator`s equations for Fibonacci numbers . There are systems of equations where all the coefficients are the numbers of the Pascal Triangle ... Now available in PDF format for which you will need the ACROBAT READER .
Simple exercises in the operational calculus

The formulas in the present paper are all simple exercises in the operational calculus ( once one knows it ). Formula involving a product of Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers:

Bernoulli numbers and the Pascal triangle

The Bernoulli numbers play an important role in mathematics. They first appeard in Ars Conjectandi, a famous, and posthumously published, treatise in 1713, by Jakob Bernoulli. Bernoulli`s numbers appear in analysis, number theory and differential topology. There is a remarkable connection between Bernoulli`s numbers and Pascal`s Triangle...

Triangular numbers

The triangular number is a polygonal number: a number that can be represented by a regular geometric arrangement of equally spaced points. As the name suggests triangular numbers can be visualised as a triangle of points... The triangular numbers can be found in the third diagonal of Pascal`s Triangle ...

Tetrahedral numbers

These numbers correspond to placing discrete points in the cofiguration of a tetrahedron ( triangular base pyramid ). Tetrahedral numbers are pyramidal numbers and are the sum of consectuive triangular numbers. The first few are 1,4,10,20,35,56,84,120 ...The tetrahedral number is a figurate number : a number that can be represented by a regular geometric arrangement of equally spaced points.As the name suggests tetrahedral numbers can be visualised as a tetrahedron of points ...

Pentatope numbers

Pentatope is the name of a specific geometric figure that human beings cannot directly visualize because it does not exist as a 3-dimensional object. Pentatope Numbers (4-tetrahedron numbers) can be found in the fifth column of Pascal`s triangle, which are of course the sum of the tetrahedral numbers....

Atomic structure and the Pascal Triangle

Nuclei with either numbers of protons or neutrons equal to Z,N = 2,8,20,28,50,82 or 126 exhibit certain properties, which are analogous to closed shell properties in atoms, including anomalously low masses, high natural abundances and high energy first excited states. The connection between magic numbers on one side and pyramidal numbers and tetrahedral numbers and triangular numbers, on the other, is highly amusing...

Cell Division and the Pascal Triangle

As we have seen, by geometrical model of cell division, each cycle leads to the new cells of the same generation without surviving of the old cell. The cell A0 becomes older by the law

t=n*T

where n is the number of the cycle andT is the period of of the cycle.But, by the previous model the age of the cells is always T. That is in contradaction with the natural law and with the reproduction of the more - cellular organisms ...

Titius - Bode Law

The so named Bode's Law was published as a scientific law by Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer and Director of the Observatory of Berlin. But the study was originally made by Christian Freiherr von Wolf ( 1679 - 1754 ), German mathematician and philosopher, and divulged at 1766 by Johann Daniel Dietz, also known as Titius of Wittenberg ( 1729 - 1796 ), German teacher of physics of the University of Wittenberg, who verified the validity of the Wolf 's calculation ...
See also :
Kepler`s Third Law
The Law of Venus

FIBONACCI NUMBERS


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Leonardo Fibonacci

Leonardo Fibonacci was born in Pisa, Italy, around 1175. He was the gratest European mathematician of the Middle Ages. He was the first to introduce the Hindu - Arabic number system into Europe. By charting the populations of rabbits Fibonacci discovered a number series from which one can derive the Golden Section. French mathematician Edouard Lucas named this series Fibonacci numbers and found their numerous significant applications. Leonardo Fibonacci died in Pisa soon after 1240 ...

FIBONACCI IDENTITIES FROM MATRICES AND VECTORS

We can express the recurrence relation F(n+2)= F(n+1) + F(n) in terms of the action of a 2 X 2 matrix. A matrix is an ordered set of numbers listed rectangular form. If a matrix A has n rows and m columns then we say it's a n X m matrix. The two-dimensional vector V is an ordered pair of elements, called scalars, of a field : V = (a,b). If U = (a,b) is written as (a,b) then U is a 1 X 2 matrix which we shall call a row - vector. Similarly, if U = (a,b) is written vertically, then U becomes a 2 X 1 matrix which we shall call a column - vector ...

Mathematical Constants and the Fibonacci Numbers

Just as physical constants provide "boundaru conditions" for the physical universe, mathematical constants somehow characterize the structure of mathematics. Surprisingly, there are several formulae that use Fibonacci numbers to compute well-known mathematical constants-Golden Section ( phi, Phi ),Natural Logarithmic Base ( e) and Archimedes` constant ( PI )....

Fibonacci Numbers and The Natural Logarithmic Base, e

Archimedes` Costant PI and the Golden Section

Archimedes` Costant PI and the Fibonacci Numbers

Machin`s Formula

Cassini formula for Fibonacci numbers

Archimedes` Costant PI and the Square Root of 3

Fine Structure Constant

Planck`s constant and Archimedes` costant PI

Elementary charge and The Golden Section

Electron mass - electron rest mass

Bohr radius


The relations between Fibonacci and Lucas numbers

The Lucas numbers are formed in the same way as the Fibonacci numbers : by adding the latest two to get the next one but instead of starting at 1 and 1 ( the Fibonacci numbers ), we start with 1 and 3 ( the Lucas numbers ). Each Lucas number is the sum of two proceeding numbers ...Now available in PDF format for which you will need the ACROBAT READER .

Pythagoras Theorem and Fibonacci Numbers

At the heart of Pythagoras` teachings was the vision of the underlying harmony of the universe. This harmony had to be abstracted from the confusion of visible things and daily events. As a matter of fact this harmony existed in the abstract - in the same way as numbers and mathematical formulas are abstractions. Pythagoras believed in secrecy and communalism, so it is almost impossible distguishing his work from the work of his followers. Pythagoras and his followers contributed to music, astronomy and mathematics....

Fibonacci Function Calculator

Fibonacci function calculator. Now available for all real values in the range -1475 < real value < +1475 . The first derivate calculation of Fibonacci function is possible too ...
Lucas Function Calculator is also available. The first derivate calculation of Lucas function is possible too...

The Function Derivative Calculator

In order to compute the derivative f '(x) try the Derivative Calculator... Click on Numerical Derivative Calculator - Data to open a Javascript program designed to calculate numerical derivative based on 15 measured data...

Computing a Sum

Divergent Series of the Fibonacci Numbers

"In his first paper on the Calculus (1669), Newton proudly introduced the use of infinite series to expedite the processes of the calculus... As Newton, Leibnitz, the several Bernoullis, Euler, d'Alembert, Lagrange, and other 18th-century men stuggled with the strange problem of infinite series and employed them in analysis, they perpetuated all sorts of blunders, made false proofs, and drew incorrect conclusions; they even gave arguments that now with hindsight we are obliged to call ludicrous." ...

Alternating Series of the Fibonacci Numbers

We now proceed to investigate series with terms of arbitary signs and begin with the so-called alternating series whose terms are alternately positive and negative...Let us find the alternating sum of all Fibonacci numbers! We shall now introduce operator of the finite differences that connects the function ...

GOLDEN SECTION


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Golden Section

The Golden Section appears repeatedly in growth patterns in nature. Throughout history, The Golden Ratio has fascinated mathematicians and artists for centuries. Lucas Pacioli in his Divina proportione wrote about the Golden Section also called the divine proportion. Pacoli`s work influenced Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Durer. The Golden Section is manifested in the structure of the human body. There are interesting series of equations for Fibonacci numbers and Golden Section ...

The relation between Fibonacci numbers and Golden Section

The Golden Section is the number often encountered when taking the ratios of distances in simple geometric figures. The Fibonacci numbers appear in arrangements of leaves because the Fibonacci numbers form the best whole number approximations to the Golden Section. There is a remarkable connection between Golden Section on one side and Fibonacci and Lucas numbers on the other ...

Lucas numbers and the Golden Section

Lucas is best known for his results in number theory: in particular he studied the Fibonacci sequence and the associated Lucas sequence is named after him.Lucas is also well known for his invention of the Tower of Hanoi puzzle and other mathematical recreations. The Tower of Hanoi puzzle appeared in 1883 under the name of M. Claus. Notice that Claus is an anagram of Lucas! His four volume work on recreational mathematics (1882-94) has become a classic. Lucas died as the result of a freak accident at a banquet when a plate was dropped and a piece flew up and cut his cheek. He died of erysipelas a few days later. The main numerical sequence considered by Lucas is the sequence of numbers 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, 29, 47, ...

Fibonacci Numbers in Nature

The Fibonacci numbers are Nature's numbering system. They appear everywhere in Nature, from the leaf arrangement in plants, to the pattern of the florets of a flower, the bracts of a pinecone, or the scales of a pineapple. The Fibonacci numbers are therefore applicable to the growth of every living thing, including a single cell, a grain of wheat, a hive of bees, and even all of mankind.Fibonacci slides. ...

The Year of Creation, 5508, and the Golden Section

In Byzantine Julian calendar was used, and the counting was conducted from the 5508 BC which was the Year of Creation as adopted in the 7th Century at Constantinople by the Eastern Orthodox Church.This creation of the world and the beginning of Being took place in the spring period, in the month of March, 5508 B.C. On Friday, the sixth day of creation at noon, man was created. The Year of Creation, 5508, is related to the Golden Section, Phi...The Number 666 is related to phi ...

Human Body and the Golden Section

It is a very proveable fact that our human bodies are phi-designed as the golden section template is intimatelyseen throughout our whole human form ratio's. This absolutely proves that we like the macrocosm (the planets, and stars) or the microcosm (of atomic and subatomic particles) all were created using the PHI design ...

The Golden Section in Art and Architecture

Web Gallery.Golden section in art and architecture ...

Leonardo Da Vinci and Platonic Solids

The constructions of the Platonic solids are included in Book XIII of Euclid's Elements. Propositions 13 through 17 describe the construction of the tetrahedron, octahedron, cube, icosahedron, and dodecahedron in that order. Plato was mightily impressed by these five definite shapes that constitute the only perfectly symmetrical arrangements of a set of (non-planar) points in space, and late in life he expounded a complete "theory of everything" (in the treatise called Timaeus) based explicitly on these five solids. It's uncertain who first described all five of these shapes - it may have been the early Pythagoreans - but some sources (including Euclid) indicate that Theaetetus (another friend of Plato's) wrote the first complete account of the five regular solids. Plato conceived the four classical elements as atoms with the geometrical shapes of four of the five platonic solids . ...

Virtual Gallery of Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci Web Art Gallery ...

Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci

In his pictures, drawings and notebooks Leonardo expressed the code of nature ( Da Vinci code ). It is in connections with the mathematics of the Golden section and also with his research of the numerology. ...

Milija Belic ART GALLERY

Milija Belic Web Art Gallery ...

Virtual Library of Useful URLs

Links to the other sites on Pascal Triangle, Fibonacci numbers and Golden Section

   

        

        

  2001-2004 Radoslav Jovanovic                translated: D.Filipovic   updated:  November 2004.