He "discovered" the Fibonacci sequence in how trees branch? Seriously?
Maybe I'm just being a grumpy old guy here, but when I was in school this was in our math textbooks as an example of how the Fibonacci sequence appears in nature.
Maybe I'm just being a grumpy old guy here, but when I was in school this was in our math textbooks as an example of how the Fibonacci sequence appears in nature.
The golden ratio does not depend on the Fibonacci sequence, it depends on the recursion equation, and it's only ubiquitous if you add error margins of 10% or so so that it covers ratios like 3/2 and 7/4. Nautilus shells aren't described by the Fibonacci sequence, and the golden box isn't all that pretty.
It's a great and motivational story, but it's not the magic bullet some authors make it out to be.