Golden ratio and phyllotaxis, a clear mathematical link

DOI10.1007/S00285-018-1265-3MaRDI QIDQ1738005zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors F. Bergeron, Christophe Reutenauer

Publication date 29 March 2019

Published in Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.02880

zbMATH Keywords

golden ratiomodular groupphyllotaxisMarkov approximation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Developmental biology, pattern formation (92C15) Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15)

Abstract: Exploiting Markoff's Theory for rational approximations of real numbers, we explicitly link how hard it is to approximate a given number to an idealized notion of growth capacity for plants which we express as a modular invariant function depending on this number. Assuming that our growth capacity is biologically relevant, this allows us to explain in a satisfying mathematical way why the golden ratio occurs in nature.

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