Alan Turing and the sunflowers
Gianluigi Filippelli
Alan Turing was fascinated by mathematical patterns found in nature. In particular, he noticed that the Fibonacci sequence often occurred in sunflower seed heads. However, his theory that sunflower heads featured Fibonacci number sequences was left unfinished when he died in 1954, but some years ago a citizen science project led by the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester and the Manchester Science Festival has found examples of Fibonacci sequences and other mathematical sequences in more than 500 sunflowers.
Inspired by this, I suggest a prompt to NightCafe, a text-to-image generator to celebrate Turing and his unstoppable mind:
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Gianluigi Filippelli
Gianluigi Filippelli
Master dregree in Physics in scattering theory. PhD in Physics in group theory (ray representation in quantum mechanics). After a master in e-learning I'm Chief Editor / Deputy Editor for EduINAF, INAF magazine about outreach and astronomy education.