Thousands of sunflowers to be planted in honour of Alan Turing for MOSI-led experiment | Culture24: He was one of a number of scientists who tried to explain Fibonacci phyllotaxis, looking at how the spirals on sunflower heads often conform to a Fibonacci sequence.
This is where each number is the sum of the two before it (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55, and so on).
Mathematicians at The University of Manchester hope to analyse thousands of sunflower heads to test the extent to which they follow the Fibonacci rule, announcing their results during the city’s Science Festival in October.
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