Everybody has music they love. Some blogs have “currently listening to” sidebars, and others discuss the merits of their favorites. For the most part, what they have in common from my point of view is that I don’t recognize a word of what they are talking about.
How could I be a trained musician, and have gotten so far removed from pop music?? I can’t figure it out. What I find is that I recognize some music here and there, but I’ve missed most of the hits of the nineties, and I have NO idea who is popular in the new millennium.
Daily Archives: October 30, 2003
The Da Vinci Code-Fibonacci sequence
Have you ever heard of the Fibonacci sequence? This is the sequence:
1 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 5 – 8 – 13 – 21
It is a progression in which each term is equal to the sum of the two preceeding terms.
Dan Brown uses this sequence as part of the clues left behind by Jacques Sauniere, the murdered curator. Sauniere raised his granddaughter, coaching her in endless puzzles. As an adult she became a cryptographer. When presented with the numbers in a scrambled form, she recognizes the sequence, and understands that it is part of a message.
The Da Vinci Code – PHI
I know, I’ve been talking about this book for the last week. It’s absolutely engrossing. I love mysteries, and this one keeps you turning the pages right to the end.
Robert Langdon is a Harvard symbologist on business in Paris. Sophie Neveu is a young cryptologist who works for the French police. Sophie’s grandfather, Jacques Sauniere, is the curator of the Louvre. The story opens with Sauniere being stalked and shot in the museum. In his last moments, he leaves clues for his granddaughter and Langdon to solve, to prevent the loss of the secret of the Priory of Sion.
The author, Dan Brown, has done an incredible job of fashioning a work of fiction based on fact. It’s difficult occasionally to tell the dividing line between the two, and that sent me surfing the Internet for information. The page before the Prologue states that “All descriptions of artwork, architechture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate.” It also confirms that the Priory of Sion, a secret society founded in 1099 is a real organization, and that Opus Dei, is truly a Catholic sect with headquarters in New York City.