Golden Mean
GOLDEN MEAN It all started from this very smart man named Leonardo Bonacci, also known as Fibonacci. Fibonacci was a very important mathematician in Europe; he is believed to be the first. He learned with Arabic mathematicians and had an Arabic learning background to math. Fibonacci had this idea of counting how many rabbits are produced in a yearí ĉ. Fibonacci started with a pair of rabbits. The next month he had a new pair, as well the next one too. Fibonacci started working for a solution, as the months continued, he noticed a certain pattern was being followed. From 1 to 2, 3 to 5, 5 to 8, 8 to 13, 13 to 21, and so on, the numbers were sum up. For example, 1 plus 2 equals 3, 2 plus 3 equals 5, 3 plus 5 equals 8, and continues on to infinity. This became known as the Fibonacci Series. This was the missing factor to unlock the key of more then a group of rabbits. The Fibonacci series wasn’t only seen in the reproduction of rabbits. It was seen in Art, Music, Nature, and Architecture. As time went by in the 12th century, people wanted to understand the theory of the Fibonacci Series, it was broken down into parts, bits of it where being explained. People then found out as the Fibonacci numbers increase the proportion of two successive numbers, they similar to each other. Each ratio get close too, but never reaches an infinite decimal beginning with the numbers 1.618. This ratio was first named the Divine Proportion, but then changed to the Golden Mean. The Golden Mean was then given the abbreviation of ø. One of the people who used this was the Greeks. The Greeks used the Golden Mean to design buildings; they also created what’s called today the Golden Rectangle. Before the Greeks, the Egyptians used the Golden Mean to build pyramids. One of those was the “The Great Pyramid of Cheops” The Golden mean was then developed into music or basically found in music. One of the best