Amazing Numbers for the Fruit of Life
By Giuseppe Gori © This article can be copied, with attribution. The “ Fruit of Life ” is the name given to a geometrical figure of 13 circles assembled along the three main directions at 60 degrees angles, thus creating a composite structure analogous to a hexagonal shape. This Fruit of Life figure is a subset of a figure (called by the same sources the “Flower of Life”) composed by 19 non-intersecting circles, disposed in a hexagonal formation. The complete Flower of Life figure can be found in records of different ancient civilizations, usually decorated with same-size, internally intersecting circles along the three axes. For centuries, mathematicians have included the Normal series of integer numbers (1,2,3, …) in each cell of squares, and other regular geometric shapes, discovering “Magic Squares” and other magic figures. Incidentally, we notice that the 19-circle Flower of Life is equivalent to 19 hexagons, similarly positioned. The figure below shows the s...