The most surprising What-Comes-Next? or How did Fibonacci beat the Solitaire army?

Fibonacci and a super pretty piece of life-and-death mathematics. What can go wrong? 00:00 Intro 02:20 Solitaire 03:12 Survivor challenge 05:32 Invasion 11:41 The triangles of death 20:22 Final animation 21:43 Thank You! Here is an online version of Marty and my newspaper article about the possible positions of one remaining peg when playing peg solitaire on various boards Marty and my new book “Putting two and two together“ Martin Aigner’s paper “Moving into the desert with Fibonacci“. Bit of a pain to access it for free, possible though via this site. This paper contains the proof that I am focussing on in this video. It also has Conway’s golden ratio based proof. An implementation of the solitaire army game by Mark Bensilum. Use it to play solitaire army general. Note that this implementation starts with all of the bottom squares occupied by pegs. Please read carefully how you ar