Tuesday 8 February 2005 at 15:00

Lenka Zdeborová
(Department of Condensed Matter Theory, Institute of Physics ASCR, Prague)

Sunflowers and Fibonacci series

Abstract:
Seminar where at the end you can eat your demonstration tools. I will tell you what is the connection between sunflowers and Fibonacci series. You would not expect how many mathematicians and botanists have tried to explain the phenomenon we will describe. Until recently there was a crucial open question: Is the connection given by evolution? And surprisingly it were physicists who gave answer.


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