A Better Place

A Better Place Everyone is mighty, and everyone is weak; Everyone is an artist, and everyone’s a bureaucrat; Everyone is a good guy, and everybody is a rat; Everyone is beautiful, and everyone is base; But you made this a better place. Everyone is sacred, and everyone is just a bag of flesh; Everyone is a…

Fibonacci and the Golden Ratio

I had the opportunity recently to view a work of art that was based on the fascinating Fibonacci sequence. The Fibonacci sequence is named after Leonardo Pisa (or Pisano?) who was known as Fibonacci. Fibonacci’s 1202 book Liber Abaci introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics although the sequence had been described earlier in Indian…