Naturally good at maths

MATHS was my weakest subject at school and things haven’t improved since.

I love words but hate numbers. But recently I read material that I found fascinating which suggests mathematical rules underpin the shapes and patterns of the natural world to a far greater extent than previously realised.

Some of the work isn’t that recent because it was Leonardo da Vinci who suggested all branches of a tree at every stage of its height when put together are equal in thickness to the trunk — the squared diameter of a tree’s trunk is equal to squared sum of the diameters of its branches.