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I've seen the phylotaxis thing before but was unaware of the rather lovely Fibonacci Lattice. My maths is only Civ Eng grad level from >25 years ago but even I
by gerdesj 8y ago
I've seen the phylotaxis thing before but was unaware of the rather lovely Fibonacci Lattice. My maths is only Civ Eng grad level from >25 years ago but even I can appreciate this stuff. Your writing style is very approachable and well illustrated.
Thank you.
- extremelearning 8y agoThanks for the kind words. I’m glad you found it interesting and useful. I think one of the advantages of writing blog posts rather than academic articles is that they are often more readable to a wider audience as the authors can be a little less formal in tone, expand on things (including copious illustrations), without worrying about space constraints.
- gerdesj 8y agoFor me, your style of writing provides a very decent balance. I'm not a scientist, nor engineer, mathematician or similar but I am a common (or garden) variety of nerd! Quite often I will plough through papers and some of the more challenging blog posts that are linked here. A post like yours is challenging but only for the right reasons. You avoid a too "chatty" and "pally" style and present facts concisely but with a bit of context - enough to point amateurs in the right direction.