most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-06-20T01:59:50Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/user/790 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/1270/alternatives-to-pi-day/1350#1350 mutecypher 2009-10-20T03:07:08Z 2009-10-20T03:07:08Z

<p>We could celebrate Fibonacci Day on November 23 (US month/day ordering), with a particularly extravagant celebration planned for '58. The activities could include the burning of Dan Brown novels (creative use of propellants and accelerants encouraged), bisecting nautilus shells, and counting sunflower seeds.</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/1270/alternatives-to-pi-day/1350#1350 2009-10-21T09:03:30Z 2009-10-21T09:03:30Z

My high school students enjoy learning about Fibonacci sequences since they are generated from &quot;seeds,&quot; and are not just a string of numbers like pi (yeah, I know the deeper significance) the sequences occur in nature and are therefore &quot;warmer,&quot; &quot;more real&quot; and less abstract than geometric shapes. They also like learning about checksums on credit/debit cards, but I can't think of a way to make a holiday about that. And they like learning at a general level about how music is transformed into bits on their iPods, but Fourier transforms and DFTs also seem unlikely holiday material.