The origin of mathematics is found in nature. It was thanks to the observation of the environment that this science was developed. And although sometimes we can forget this relationship, nature itself is often in charge of reminding us of it.
This time it is the flowers that make us see the mathematical perfection that, like an underground and secret current, is hidden in many of their designs: patterns that correspond to one of the most exciting mathematical concepts, the Fibonacci sequence.
Leonardo de Pisa discovered in the 13th century this numerical sequence that starts at 0 and 1 and from then on each number results from the sum of the two previous ones. Since then, the Fibonacci series has been used in music, architecture, painting, and other arts, mimicking the harmonic effect that manifests itself in natural designs such as seashells, galaxies, and, in this case, flowers.
«Nature loves to hide», said Heraclitus, and witnessing the geometric navel of flowers suggests that mathematics, in a fractal eagerness, is hidden in nature itself.
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