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Mother Nature Is a Math Geek
And she’s not just good at it — she’s a genius.
It’s been a while since I last wrote on this platform, but I don’t hold it against myself. I believe it’s perfectly fine to step away from things now and then, especially when other priorities demand attention. In my case, that priority has been my academics. Moving forward, I’ll try to write whenever I find the time, as writing has always been both an enriching journey and a valuable learning experience for me.
I never tire of exploring the mathematical elegance of the world and the universe. It’s a recurring theme in my mini-blogs on X and Medium, a subject I find endlessly fascinating.We don’t usually think of nature as a number-cruncher. Math feels like something we invented — equations on a whiteboard, graphs in a textbook. But if you look closely, nature has been running the numbers long before we ever showed up.
And she’s not just good at it — she’s a genius.
Take the sunflower, for example. Ever noticed how its seeds seem to form spirals in perfect symmetry? Not an accident, but rather an application of the Fibonacci sequence — a series of numbers that appear everywhere, from galaxies to seashells. This way, the sunflower fits as many seeds as possible into a small area — the equivalent of efficiency in nature.
