1. Why are numbers important in our life? Explain your answer.

When we are kid, our parents are tend to teach us basic math just like addition,
subtraction, division, fraction and etc. There are kids that are potentially good at math
that they are born to excel in numbers and be intelligent in comes to math. There are also
kids that almost curse and hate math because they are not suited in terms of numbers. But
don’t just always take the negative side of numbers because learning math can help us in
our daily lives. First: It can boost your logical thinking. This will give you a strong
foundation regards on the way how you perceived a thing or a nature just like the subject,
Physics. You can learn all sorts of phenomena in nature. Second: It makes you
passionate. Since for me, math is an art. You got this strong feeling in every problem and
you are eager to solve it just like a Rubik’s cube, you are being thrilled to solve the
mystery behind those scrambled colour and expecting a mesmerizing colour of pattern.
Third: Numbers are very important to our society. Let me give a situation that numbers
are involved. When we buy things, we need money, right? When an engineer tends to
build a house, he needs to measure the length, width and height, right? Also a calculator
is a tool that helps the people to calculate a number, right? Then it proves that number is
a huge factor to our society because it’s not just a number, it’s an art, it’s a tool, it’s an
ally that helps us to improve and solve mysteries.

2. Identify and describe certain pattern (at least one) that you observe in your locality or
within our nearby environment.

Plant : Snake Plant

Pattern : Fractals
 This is a Snake Plant. Its pattern is Fractals. Sansevieria Trifasciata is an epic houseplant
commonly called Mother in Law's Tongue for its sharp leaves, or Snake Plant for its
twisted tendrils, Snake Plant is one of the plants that clean the air, converts carbon
dioxide to oxygen at night, and has been used to create bowstring hemp. It has a spike in
every part of its leaves. The reason why I call it Fractals in terms of pattern is because
they look the same as the entire shape with different scale. I conduct research about this
and it was called self-similarity. As you can see in the picture, the first two leaves started
at the middle. Next is the three of its leaves started beside it and so on for the four leaves.
Fractals are the most beautiful and most bizarre geometric shapes. It can mesmerize your
eyes because of its repeated shapes and scale.

3. Who is Fibonacci and why did he become famous?

The "greatest European mathematician of the middle ages", his full name was Leonardo of Pisa,
or Leonardo Pisano in Italian since he was born in Pisa, Italy, the city with the famous Leaning
Tower, about 1175 AD.

Pisa was an important commercial town in its day and had links with many Mediterranean ports.
Leonardo's father, Guglielmo Bonacci, was a kind of customs officer in the present-day Algerian
town of Béjaïa, formerly known as Bugia or Bougie, where wax candles were exported to
France. They are still called "bougies" in French.

So Leonardo grew up with a North African education under the Moors and later travelled
extensively around the Mediterranean coast. He would have met with many merchants and
learned of their systems of doing arithmetic. He soon realised the many advantages of the
"Hindu-Arabic" system over all the others.
D E Smith points out that another famous Italian - St Francis of Assisi (a nearby Italian town) -
was also alive at the same time as Fibonacci: St Francis was born about 1182 (after Fibonacci's
around 1175) and died in 1226 (before Fibonacci's death commonly assumed to be around 1250).

By the way, don't confuse Leonardo of Pisa with Leonardo da Vinci! Vinci was just a few miles
from Pisa on the way to Florence, but Leonardo da Vinci was born in Vinci in 1452, about 200
years after the death of Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci).

He is most famous for his description of the number sequence, which in 19th century was given
the name 'Fibonacci numbers' after its inventor. The sequence is made by starting with two ones,
and adding them up, then to make every new term the previous two terms need to be added
together. It starts like this

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, and so on...

He described this number sequence in relation to the way rabbits breed:

A man puts a pair of baby rabbits into an enclosed garden. Assuming each pair of rabbits bears a
new pair every month, which from the second month on itself becomes productive, how many
pairs of rabbits will there be in the garden after one year?

As a young man, Fibonacci travelled with his father who was a big merchant. Fibonacci's father
was a representative of the merchants of Pisa, who imported and exported materials from and to
northern Africa, mainly a place Bugia, now in Algeria. During one of these travels Fibonacci
learnt mathematics known there.

He wrote a very famous book Liber abaci in 1202 to describe mathematics he learnt on his
travels. He mentioned in this book that in Algeria he learnt Indian's number symbols, and also
what he called Indian accounting. It was in Liber abaci that Fibonacci first described his now
famous numbers, through the problem of rabbits.