Famous for a day
Today's fleeting fame brought an email alerting me to Bob Johnson's Fibonacci resources page for his Durham mathematics undergraduates, which includes a couple of interesting articles such as one by George Markowsky neatly demolishing some of the sillier myths about the Golden Ratio and a 1995 Scientific American article by Ian Stewart. Stewart, as ever, explains things beautifully; it builds up on the Douady and Couder experiments, and a version of the same material, without the hokey dialogue device, made its way into Stewart's book Life's Other Secret. It's a shame Stewart was apparently unaware of Graeme Mitchison's much earlier Science paper which captured most of the key ideas: I think he could have made characteristically good popular use of it.
