The theme for a recent photo challenge was "Fibonacci". After first Googling "Pasta types", then "famous Italian Liars", I came to learn that Fibonacci was actually a rather distinguished mathematician from the 1200's. Evidently on a slow night in 1202 Fibbie, as he was known to his buds, came up with a theory about the sequencing of numbers in nature. Astonishing to math mavens and mildly interesting to the general population, his book "Liber Abaci" introduced his theory of numerical sequencing to Western Europe. (It had been used in ancient India circa 200B.C., but that's another story..). Soo, flashing forward to 2009 a macro shot of a Nautilus shell (illustrating his sequential theory in nature) might just make a decent photo entry for a Fibonacci challenge.Perhaps, all of the above is just way too much information! (Image looks best in large view)
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