He does it with fractals. Nature is a series of repeating patterns that appear even in things that appear to be random.
What these guys did was tie yet something else that seemed to spin off into infinity into something that could be understood through a pattern that repeats.
The golden ratio is something you’ll be able to ‘hook into’ mentally. You’ll find this ratio in everything from how a sunflower’s seeds sit in the center of the flower to how a nautilus shell’s growth from it’s center has the same proportions.
It appears this legendary East Indian mathmatician understood this, but hadn’t explained it fully on paper. Tesla was notorious for this failing. What these guys might find is that the moduli consisting of these three primes - 5, 7, and 11 are at the heart of the pattern.
What fascinates me is that we have a term for numbers called ‘the partition’ and that we’ve discovered a significance for it in nature and science. I love that.
Though tests said I should be highly otherwise, my performance was not great in math.
Would you be willing to relate, in simple terms, perhaps graphically??? the golden ration with the 5, 7, 11 thing you were mentioning?
I hope you realize there are actually no fractals in nature. Fractals depend on having an infinitely divisible space, and actual physical space (as opposed to the abstractions we mathematicians deal with) is not infinitely divisible: no measurement finer than the Planck scale can be made.
There are a whole lot of natural recursive patterns that look like approximations to fractals (because if one works out how the recursion would go for infinitely many steps — assuming an infinitely divisible space — one gets a fractal), but there aren’t actually any fractals in the physical universe.