Las matemáticas de la naturaleza : La invisible estructura que subyace a la armonía del mundo

Many people view mathematics as something far removed from everyday life—a universe of abstractions that, aside from a few practical applications, has little to do with the real world. Yet, more than four centuries ago, Galileo Galilei warned us that the universe is written in the language of mathematics—an idea that merely revived the ancient Pythagorean conception of reality. This is the thesis that the mathematician Frabetti sets out to demonstrate in this fascinating book. In it, he reveals the (mathematical) reason why honeycomb cells are hexagonal, the presence of the Fibonacci sequence in sunflower seeds, astronomical constants, and the fractal structure of our respiratory system.