Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: The Fibonacci Sequence

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why the Fibonacci sequence is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

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LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:

• Katie Goldin on TikTok
• Katie Goldin on Twitter
• @ProBirdRights
• ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
• When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)
• ‘Daniel and Jorge Explain The Universe’ (iHeartRadio)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
• Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
• Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• A Brief History Of Mathematical Thought by Luke Heaton
• The Magic Of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why by Arthur Benjamin
• TED Talk by Arthur Benjamin: “The magic of Fibonacci numbers”
• “The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme” by Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin (Proceedings Of The Royal Society B)
• It’s Okay To Be Smart: “The Golden Ratio: Is It Myth or Math?” (PBS / YouTube)
• The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life by Alex Bellos
• The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics by Clifford A. Pickover
• Fibonacci and pineapples (the blog “The Craft Of Coding”)
• How to Count the Spirals (The National Museum of Mathematics)
• There’s a mathematical equation that proves I’m ugly. Here’s how I learned to ignore it. (Vox.com)
• The Golden Ratio: Design’s Biggest Myth (Fast Company)
• How Fibonacci Introduced The World To Numbers (NPR “Science Friday” interview with Prof. Keith Devlin of Stanford University)
• Royal Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals information about pregnant rabbits
• How Prohibition led to the invention of the Caesar salad (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Pentagrams
• Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Triangles
• Exhibitions And Projects: Mario Merz (Dia Beacon art museum) — this is the artist Alex references at the beginning of the episode.